The Most Creative Music Activity You’re Not Doing!

[@alpersungur6979]

I've sat down and just played and responded. I loved learning from you that any music theory I learn will work its way in. I came here wanting to introduce my inner self to the process of learning guitar by the 'making your own scales' query. I was rewarded. The answer, stay with your inner hearing, make the player free. I was made to realize here tonight that this thing I have loved doing before I already know how to do and that it is me, creativity, not just something I make do till I learn to play. I had by that token enjoyed 'playing'. That gift was uncovered here now. The expressing, in listening, the response wanting made. And lastly, I was taught that this is not about performance. I the ego needed to know this and keep it about my intrinsic joy and journey and not capitalize or worry about its outer perception, or loose the seed it in the selling. So now I truly have more to look forward to.. that thing I do, the stuff that I did but was abandoning till I learned how to play, is an absurd irony taking away the playing. But then giving a home for all of the theory that will incorporate rather than becoming a box. I am so grateful for aware people, it opens a door for others like me who are just ready but needing a centre and awareness for a natural activity, to understand that Jamming is a guide, it is a marriage between the logical mind and our very centre that expresses. This cures inner conflict, opens a channel. Who even asks if they should just make their own scales. A playful unbounded child does. You did and I was ready tonight. So I jam and learn theory, let the subconscious process the theory, and keep playing, letting myself be educated by the total experience. Thank you for validating this thing I did a few times in the past and always recalled. It Is a gift.

[@awarespontaneousartimprovi1275]

Warsaw Improvisation Orchestra sends you a ray of happinies

[@mortyk182]

this channel is a gem

[@connorpierce9663]

All the time, sometimes I'll just play with synths until I create a sound that gives me inspiration, or doing free form jamming with friends. Noise music is fun, but it can also give you some really cool ideas.

[@joelperez5891]

Also i love that when you are discovering new sounds on the instrument, the tonics are in a constant shift. You can really lose yourself in sound. Great video, and good reminder to keep the creativity alive.

[@NotRightMusic]

Thanks! Gotta keep those tonics shifting!

[@handupy]

This is like one of the best things I've seen in a long while.

[@NotRightMusic]

Thanks so much! And your comment is one of the best comments I've seen in a long while!

[@stansvitaminssupplements8184]

Great freakin vid. Breakthrough event. I am not a musician but i will nevertheless incorporate the "improv" into what I do.

[@NotRightMusic]

Thanks for the encouragement! Unless we live our life by strict scripts most of our lives are lived improvising.

[@knowmoore5536]

The recordings of Dharma Son Collective and AnomalyEnsemble have space rock elements incorporated with psychedelia, noise and experimental weirdness..Everything from spacy instrumentals to modal drones to acid rock to straight up frenzied apocalyptic noise explosions,,some of their stuff can be chaotic at times but Damn are they odd and Very original! I don't think they are on KZbin but they are definitely worth seeking out if you can find them! Some standout works are "We're Not The Only Spirits Awake" and "Kryptic Triptych" from 2006, "Subliminal Messages From The Attic" and "Zenogenesis" from 2007, AnomalyEnsemble's "Fantasmas" and "Space Peace" from 2008, "See Thru Tribulations" and "Citaedelia" from 2009, "Headcoasting" from 2010,..They are strange birds!

[@carlintuitive]

I taught it to music therapists in Denmark for 31 years. You can become a MA in Free Improvisation in Basel and a few more places I think. Things do develop!

[@NotRightMusic]

I'd imagine that it's a good method of therapy. I didn't know that one could get an MA in it though! When I went to Berklee they had a music therapy department, and free improvisation was a part of it, but it was a minor element. Perhaps things have changed.

[@NeSkuSound]

Great vid, thank you)

[@bencreole700]

I wondered what happened to you. Glad to known that you'll continue to provide us with your much needed videos. I'm guilty of not free improvising enough. I'm never satisfied after I try to do it. I guess that's one reason I watch videos like this on youtube.

[@NotRightMusic]

I here! Thanks Ben. Not being satisfied could mean many things. Did you not enjoy the act of improvising? Was it the sound of the improv you didn't like? If so, why didn't you like the sound? What can you do to change that?

[@shineyfaces5816]

Whoa the visuals on this one are out of the park! Bravo Marcus! Especially near the end. I try to improvise everyday. Not all of it is non idiomatic. When I try to play out of any style it usually turns into noise. Which I don't like very much. Perhaps I should put more of an effort into it. Great video again. Very inspiring.

[@NotRightMusic]

Thanks Shiney! Perhaps next time you try some free improv make one "stay away from noise" event. Write it on a white board or something and keep it in front of you as you play.

[@Sadoskya]

leet's goo boy

[@TheVenusProjectInfo]

This is literally what I do at all times

[@Mr.SmashKab]

I feel super meta right now. I used to teach drums to a few students and I had one that thrived on structured patterns and did well with written music, another I had wasn't as great with getting through different patterns so we focused more on the sounds and noises you could make with a drum kit and experimented with how to use them. He always had a blast.

[@kanrup5199]

improv is all I ever want to do. I actually need to start recording some things I play sometime, since I can never repeat something I played twice. cos I forget it in two seconds.

[@mauricio0guaruja]

great work on the chanel dude. how i wished there were portuguese subtitles to share with people i know that don't understand it.

[@verandi3882]

I always did improvise on the pentatonic and minor scales but this gives an idea of improvising chromatically .

[@alterego5985]

I've been doing this for years. Didn't know it has a name

[@NotRightMusic]

Hahaa! Awesome! I guess the name is not important - as long as we're doing it!

[@joelperez5891]

Smoke as one of your improv rules hahaha

[@NotRightMusic]

Hahaa! I guess that rule has various interpretations.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Sure. I practice all my Derek Bailey licks ;-)

[@stefan1024]

When improvising, I feel that avoiding idioms can become kind of a idiom of it's own. Actually it feels more free to me to let influences flow through my music if they want to. After all, every timbre, every harmony and every rhythmic pattern is connected to something, may it be cultural or natural. Phrasings can come from language and breath and rhythms from workflows. Why don't we play music above 1000,000 Hz with rhythms slower than 0.003 bpm? (Ok, John Cage probably did that). Because it wouldn't work for us, we couldn't even hear it. Music is based on rules and always will be. Those rules don't have to be strict like, let's say, in "classical music", but they are there, even in free improv. Because of that I don't like when people tell me they are "non-idiomatic".

[@NotRightMusic]

I agree that non-idiomatic is a paradox in and of itself. Personally, I don't use it to label music as a genre. I think of "non-idiomatic" more as an exercise, or creative challenge. As a teacher, it's a useful term to use when I want to challenge students to not play in any style and to move away from their comfort zone for just a bit.

[@stefan1024]

I totally agree with the comfort zone thing. All I wanted to say is, that if I feel like swinging, or like playing a 5th intervall, I should do that. Improvising without (too many) rules is very important to learn though and I agree that a lot of people don't listen enough while playing but instead think too much. Sadly some of them don't even think about interesting stuff ;)

[@NotRightMusic]

Most students I have first come around unaware of the idea of non-idiomatic music. Usually, they just want to play music they like. Introducing it this way is usually an eye-opener for them. And it helps them appreciate how important rules are in music, especially when they want to understand how genres in music work and what makes styles differ from one another. It's also fun to just mess around with improvising off silly themes. Try having a group of musicians improvise 'non-idiomatic pretentious stupid music!' See what they make of that! That should push anyone out of their comfort zone :)

[@itaylevin4555]

1:04 Was that a Cenobite?!

[@NotRightMusic]

That's the Locrian Demon. Married to the Mixolydian Fairy.

[@adrianaslund8605]

Its ironic that this is the only type of music im capable of.

[@AloysiusScrimshaw]

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