How To Freestyle a Guitar Solo
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Improvisation
Improvising music is sometimes seen as an advanced skill or relevant for certain genres only. However, improvisation has forever been a part of music in every style, era and culture. Learning to improvise great-sounding music doesn’t need to be hard! With the right ear training exercises and some mindset tips you can literally begin improvising music and enjoying the experience of improvisation today.
Free articles about Improvisation
Patterns and Playgrounds: 4 Ways to Approach Improvisation
Improvisation can seem hard or even impossible to learn but these 4 approaches give you an easy and relaxed way to get started and keep improving.
Crazy Easy Weird (Modal) Improv Trick, Part 2
Modal improvisation sounds intimidating. But this simple improv trick puts those mysterious modes to work to offer you an easy way to create awesome music
Open Your Ears to Jazz
Born the streets of New Orleans, jazz grew through dance, entertainment and pop to become high art, touching nearly every popular music style on the planet.
Crazy Easy Weird (Modal) Improv Trick
Modal improvisation sounds scary and hard. Though it’s loved by monsters like John Coltrane and Steve Vai, modal improv can be very easy, fun and beautiful.
10 Inspiring Quotes about Musical Improvisation
You don’t have to be a musical whiz to be good at improvisation. You just need to practice. Here’s what some of music’s biggest names have to say about it.
Improve Your Improv: Listen to the Rhythm Section, with Stefan Hall
Beginning improvisers often lose their way in the form. Stefan Hall shares his teaching about listening to the rhythm section to keep your solo on track.
Learning Jazz Improvisation, with Bob Habersat and Paul Levy
Learning jazz improvisation can be overwhelming. For great results, break it down into manageable chunks with these new online resources over at The Shed.
They Carved Their Names in Rock: 5 Giants of Rock Improvisation
Looking for your own sound? Listen to these five rock improvisation giants and practice what you hear. You will absorb their greatness and make it your own.
Rock Improvisation Techniques
Rooted in the blues, the language of rock improvisation includes several important scales, licks, expressive techniques, and an unmistakable showmanship.
Six Giants of Jazz Improvisation
Learn from the Jazz Giants: each one leaves behind titanic musical gifts for you to listen, transcribe, practice, and make a part of your own improvisation.
Jazz Improvisation Evolution: A history of jazz by ear
Listen to how jazz improvisation has evolved in each of the major eras of the history of jazz, from the start through bebop, fusion, free jazz and today.
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