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I guess the opposite of this method is hunt and peck
I would like to hear about what's in your head
Edited by - mmuussiiccaall on 06/22/2020 09:32:00
When improvising over three chord tunes I start off thinking of blues licks. If the tune doesn't have a bluesy flavor I'll substitute the blues scale's minor thirds with major thirds, and substitute the blues scale's minor sevenths with major sevenths. And of course, I'll intone my tired cliches in duple meter, not triple meter.
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Originally posted by Brian WoodI very rarely think of a number or note name or interval. I'm used to where notes are on the scale and I have a bag of riffs from tunes and other players to use and alter. I mostly think musically what I want to hear.
Yeah all that rolls around in my head and I hear the interval that the lick starts on so it comes out in the right key.
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Originally posted by Lonesome FiddlerWhen improvising over three chord tunes I start off thinking of blues licks. If the tune doesn't have a bluesy flavor I'll substitute the blues scale's minor thirds with major thirds, and substitute the blues scale's minor sevenths with major sevenths. And of course, I'll intone my tired cliches in duple meter, not triple meter.
Yeah Ed in my mind I call that making it "VANILLA".
Hard to describe but mostly I just approach it in terms of various aspects of music... melody, rhythm, phrasing, lyricalness, push/pull. leading notes, harmonic feel, tension/release, resolve. These are not constricted to chord notes, nor scale formulas.
I mostly don't "think" as in abstract calculate... it's mostly just imagining the sound possibilities; it's mostly from concrete experience of sound... perhaps more akin to a scat singer.
Edited by - alaskafiddler on 06/22/2020 15:13:01
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