A Talk About Improvisation & How You Can Develop Your Creativity.

Learning to improvise is the Holy Grail for a most musicians. For some, however, it's a never ending source of frustration. If you work hard on your technique, how can you then transform this into improvisations that you feel are from the heart and not just a bunch of pre-learned lick ideas. In this podcast, GMI founder Ged Brockie discusses improvisation and how you can develop it within your musical life.

Podcast Ep 7 – Table Of Contents

* 1.12 Definition of improvisation.
* 2.30 The true reason behind technique.
* 5.00 How to understand the language of music.
* 7.15 The secret behind speaking the language of music.
* 8.20 Becoming fluent in the language of music.
* 10.27 Is improvisation really "making things up on the spot"?
* 13.00 The chords, scales and arpeggios to think about when improvising.
* 14.32 How to become a better improviser and the paradox.
* 15.30 What Joe Pass said about improvisation.
* 19.00 Making improvisation more complex than it needs to be.
* 20.00 An example of un-needed complexity and modes.
* 22.19 My approach to to learning how to improvise.
* 23.38 Contextualization in improvisation?
* 28.13 Summing up and final thoughts.

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