random picking

I found a few cool videos series on improvisation from the NY jazz clinic

I need to work on all of these but for now i will work on the scale fragments, rearranging the scale and exploring the tail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_HQYTYBj0

* less is more
* get to the music quickly - more playing less practicing

* fragment the scale
jazz guys never play a whole scale but tunes like somewhere over the rainbow
or in a sentimental mood use scale fragments and leaps

* rearrange the scale
put the tonic in the middle (not top and bottom) of your scale/riffs


*explore the tail
descending below the root so you can avoid arriving with a thud

*Tell a story from 5 to 1 - coherence and correlation ?)


* vary the changes

*use this scale model to introduce new harmonies



Need to spend some time with Larry Coryell getting the altered sounds into my playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIpkABVrdn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n0DFKqKU7I