Lukasz Drazek, First steps in the world of improvisation |
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Apr 10 2013, 09:09 PM
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Now im ready. I can play A-natural minor scale up and down on 5th position now.
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Apr 11 2013, 09:48 AM
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Ok...so now let's talk a little about what improvisation really is in practice.
1. Theory and knowlege are a must but we will do it step by step, starting from the simple major and minor keys. 2. Feeling - notes we play and dynamics we feel even thought we didn't consider names of the notes and it's relations - we just feel they fit. For example - while playing melodies based on half steps and whole steps, we can easily feel which note would be next (half or whole step) in particaular key / chord progression 3. Licks - things we just know and we have them done by hours/days/months/years of practise. We do not think in a speed of 20 notes per second. We have to practise first and then use the lick while we feel it will work in a particular place of the impro. It's very rare to create technical licks "live" while improvising (it happens but it's magic of the moment:) ). 4. Emotions - they can lead as to the places we never thought we could be  The "Damn...I've never played something like that before" factor. Many times You let your emotions own You for a moment...You play many things out of the "safe spots" on the fingerboard.5. Note relations to the backing chords. It's very important to start to learn how each interval sounds - what is it's character. Learning to feel intervals helps to find positioning of the notes we already hear in our heads, while playing. We need to know where to find them and how they sound. Good way of practising intervals is finding popular melodies that starts from sepcyfic interval - it's like minor 6th = Love Story theme (first 2 notes). Of course...there are more factor but gonna get to them later. Good thing is to start working on phrasing. Sometimes is much more interesting to use only three notes but with lot's of dynamics, rhtythm and articulation. Very often Young players say "I can't improvise because I don't know scales"...that's a bad attitude. Before Your learn to use scales, learn how to make simple melodies....how to make music (not just guitar playing), and color it with available rhythm, dynamics and mentioned articulation My first task for You would be to get that backing track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrdIdKHkxQA Now...imagine You're a vocalist...not a guitar player. Make a song of it. Use the notes of A-natural minor You just learned. Make me feel like You were covering someone's song that had a lirycs and vocal track. Notice that many popular melodies are pretty simple and based on a few repeatable licks. Now...We wanna do the same with this one. Create two different melodies - verse and the chorus. Each of them can be very simple and based even on just a few notes but while You repeat same thre notes try to not copy the way You play it... For example : If Your melody is just a simple A B C A B C A B C A B D...than try to play different each A B C section. If You used legato for the first section , You could use some bends in the next one. Think about all available articulation like...vibrato, bends, slides, legato, tapping, muting etc... Record Your take over it |
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Jun 14 2013, 01:11 PM
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Oct 8 2013, 09:40 PM
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Can you find another backing track. It will be something fresh for me. And I will do the same with this.
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Dec 17 2013, 09:03 PM
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Hi!
I wanna join into "Less is more", I choose backing from https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Melodi...ck_Ballad_Solo/ and record few bars of my improvisation, i hope you can get some feedback and some tips to make it better its only 20shttps://soundcloud.com/ukasz-dr-ek-2/first This post has been edited by Lukasz Drazek: Dec 18 2013, 12:12 AM |
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Dec 25 2013, 04:54 PM
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What do you think about teaching me theory from 0, with 1 week tasks? From totally begining or something like that?
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Dec 31 2013, 02:56 PM
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That's a great idea
we'll start tomorrow. Have a happy new year Lukasz
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Jan 2 2014, 06:29 PM
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Jan 3 2014, 01:36 PM
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This shape what you show me isnt major shape? i need find next shape for major scale? dont touch minor, right?
This post has been edited by Lukasz Drazek: Jan 3 2014, 01:50 PM |
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