YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO IMPROVISE / Jazz Tactics #1

[@chasesanborn]

This is the first of the re-edited 'Director's Cuts' series of Jazz Tactics videos. Please remember to LIKE the video and if you are willing to contribute a small amount to support the work that goes into this channel, click the THANKS button. Thanks to YOU for watching!

[@benjaminlanier7916]

Hello, what’s the difference between improvisation and adlib?

[@chasesanborn]

Ad lib means the performer has freedom or 'liberty' to interpret the music, but it has been used, more in the past, as a synonym for improvisation.

[@seal516]

Speaking (improvising) is definitely the most important thing, but after that, reading and writing ARE pretty important skills for communicating ideas (music) when you’re not able to talk to (play for) someone directly

[@chasesanborn]

No argument there.

[@WilliamSaadGuitar]

Great channel. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate the language analogy and the cheeseburger analogy in another one of your great videos.

[@chasesanborn]

I'm glad you are enjoying the videos! Thanks for saying so.

[@nss2vprez]

This. This is what I needed to hear.

[@chasesanborn]

I'm glad to hear that!

[@hazmatite]

Excellent video. Didn't realize you'd re-done these

[@chasesanborn]

Some have been completely redone; others are re-edited now that I have a better idea of what I'm doing.

[@hazmatite]

@@chasesanborn cool. i have been rewatching the blues series ones. Still the best explanation I've seen of how a jazz blues works relative to a standard, 12 bar, I IV V, which is what I'm used to as a harmonica player. Still working on incorporating that jazz language!

[@andythesaxplayer]

Thanks!

[@chasesanborn]

Thanks so much for the tip, Andy--the support is much appreciated!

[@ttsunnydale2628]

Very nice

[@chasesanborn]

Glad you think so!

[@Alpha-Andromeda]

Hi, this is very cool video. However I would like to forward the idea that one actually does think about language while one is using it. It really depends on how well you want to speak English for example. So as I am speaking I wonder for example if there is a better, more “succinct” word that I can use to convey my message. I could’ve also used to the word “precise”. Or maybe I want to use the word “illustrative”. In the same way, jazz musicians do think of more advanced ways of transmitting the idea that the feel and a have. And if we tell jazz musicians that they’re not actually going to think about ways in which to transmit things which are more advanced or more elaborate or on the contrary, more simple and that they’re not actually making those decisions in the moment while they are improvising, we are actually sending them into the gladiator ring without them knowing what they’re gonna be doing. If you were to transmute miles Davis’ solos or Coltrane’s into English you would see that they speak of an extremely specific and advanced English. Because they are actually thinking about it at the same time that they are allowing themselves the freedom to create. Jazz improvisation, like any kind of improvisation is a mixture between that freedom that you allow yourself which comes from a lot of practical tools learned in your own practice time and an abandonment of self at the moment of the solo, so on one hand there is that and concurrently there are these “in the moment decisions” that you make because your logical mind also needs to keep you within certain parameters usually dictated by the chord changes or song structure and length, or by the accompaniment of other musicians’ ideas.

[@chasesanborn]

All good points. There is a difference between speaking a language conversationally and going beyond fluency to express yourself artfully, precisely or succinctly. An experienced improviser actively seeks new ways of expression, however as this is #1 in a series of videos about jazz improvisation, it is targeted at someone who is at the starting line and may feel overwhelmed by how much there is to learn. There is much to think about in the episodes that follow.

[@Bueroartikel]

I think to add a little theory behind why this works, I would recommend checking out Stephen Krashen's Comprehensible Input Hypothesis. He has a number of wonderful lectures, really easy to watch. I think this comprehensible input hypothesis can be applied to much much more then just language and the possible outcome to this would be amazing.

[@user-kp2qk9bg9s]

Спасибо за видео. Очень четкая и точная аналогия с языком. Как образ для объяснения своих идей и понимания концепции джазовой импровизации очень подходит.

[@chasesanborn]

Glad you agree!

[@ArturoJim]

Ty for this information

[@chasesanborn]

YW!

[@LibertyWarrior68]

I already can speak Jazz, but this video has articulated, extremely well, what I have been already doing in my playing. I look forward in going through some of your other lessons to learn things I don't know.

[@chasesanborn]

Glad to hear that!

[@michaelfaulkner4647]

Glad to see this channel!

[@chasesanborn]

Glad to have you seeing it!

[@SchlimmShadySmash]

really love this take, as a linguist i love this approach. subscribed and put on notifications :) thx for this video just a side note its spelled "coherent" not coherant.

[@chasesanborn]

It figures I'd include a typo in a video relating to language! Glad a linguist is able to overlook that.

[@cr0pduster327]

Thank you, this is really helpful

[@chasesanborn]

Glad to hear that!

[@BryanRoyes]

Great video!

[@chasesanborn]

Thanks for saying so!

[@fer7068]

That Joke LOL

[@MrWhit30]

I've always said I never listened to enough jazz to learn the language therefore I cant play it . I never internalized the standard progressions and tunes. Gimme a 3-4 chord bluegrass or rock standard and Ill improvise all day on it no problem. I guess I just never like jazz enough to play jazz convincingly. That and I just wasn't exposed early on. All I heard growing up was country and rock.

[@chasesanborn]

Jazz is a complex music that takes time and effort to be able to play it. One has to strongly desire the end result to make the effort worthwhile.