Is Jazz Improvisation Just a Bunch of Licks?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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I’m finding this easier and more useful that the ‘learn all arpeggios in all keys’ approach. it easier to get into your head.
As a text lesson member I can HIGHLY recommend any and all products chad puts out! Great stuff!
Ditto!
I can relate to that feeling of overfocusing on the "how will this help, how will this change my playing" thing... Recently I've been finding more joy in just practicing interesting things for its own sake and not overthinking the end result so much. It could be cool to hear you go more into depth about this and similar problems in how people approach practicing in a future video!
The analogy of learning a foreign language the way you argued it is very apt.
Hi Chad ! I'm surprised that you don't name Michael Brecker as your great masters. It's so obvious that you forgot him ?
For augmented and diminished chords what would be the recommendation? Thank you
Definitely purchasing that bites PDF. Thanks!
I think the key point though, is that the main thing you learn when learning a language is words and grammar. Sentences are only learned to learn these more fundamental building blocks which allow you to construct your own sentences. So when you want to speak your mind or speak from the heart, you don't speak in memorized sentences, but put words together following a grammar
Thank you Chad. You are indeed one of the young master of the saxophone. I appreciate your great lessons and advice.
It is awesome that you had the chance to play at that club when you were a child. Probably not as regularly in mi own case, but I grow up performing at some venues, spanish pop music from the 80's and 90's, which was the tradition I could get at home, and later on discovered jazz, went to jazz school for college and I'm still learning and trying to blend all my influences, jazz and not jazz ones too. Great video, you are one of my musical heroes of today!
Discovering Chad's melodic cell concept a few years ago has put me on a track to thinking about constructing lines that I'm very happy about.
Hi Chad, great video, i really like the way you credited you mentors and your Dad.
Where can I find the PDF for this? The link brings me to the full 200$ course which is way out of my budget
A great video, as always. Playing licks might be entertaining, but it’s not improvising, it’s like learning another song. Obviously somebody must have made a lick before we can use it. As I see, some can make licks, some cannot. Very few have the talent of Beethoven, Grieg, George Michael, Swedish ABBA, Charlie Parker. The rest of us can spice up a song by stealing licks from others.
people really sleep on the process of breaking down a 'lick' into the actual vocabulary
I didn't learn this until college and it majorly set me back
Wow, I should lay my hand on that course, I like what i hear.
Very well put-together video with excellent explanations! Love this ❤
If that was the case, then everyone playing licks would be called a "jazz musician"
I want to buy this product, but I don't know English, so I have to use a translator, is it possible? With the Korean function.
Very interesting topic and great presentation, man! Thanks! Your playing needs no hype from me :) (stellar as always).
As a sequel to this someday, perhaps if an accomplished player (guitar, piano, sax, whatever really) of music but not jazz improv got a lesson from you where we see them try to string some licks together over say a blues or body and soul or something?
Wow Chad. Great video. As an ex Software nerd - now musician, your parallels to language are right on. My only worry is someone feeds these bytes into ChatGPT and it puts us out of business. Seriously (Not really). Only in the sense that French or any language is just a bunch of sentences and words. Music will still paint a picture which I can't see a computer understanding (yet).
No..Artistry and personal life experiences are represented. Clones often sound like sn.. shen non reliant on stolen ideals!
Your image comparing to speek another language remind me how you spoke fast in this video 😂. That was hard for a french guy but hopfully, I could rewind. Thank you for your analyse and job. ❤
How can we subscribe to your only licks? I mean...
Thank you for this video Chad!
Thank you Chad, so helpful.
Love this video !
Thank you.
Great topic Chad.
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21:00 - the best advice ever
Exactly! I like this specifically: ''...just like the language of French is just a bunch of words and sentences, and pronunciations, AND YOU HAVE TO STUDY IT DEEPLY! :)''
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its really good information, but it has to be said that this is a very beginner approach. if you transcribe Herbie Hancock, or Wayne shorter or really any advanced jazz musician from the last 60 years you will find much more syncopation, rythmic variation, harmonic variation than what is explained here. And in those solos, you dont really see a bunch of little bites as chad is teaching. it tends to be much more motivic, developed and personal. For example, miles used a lot of space inbetween his phrases, while mcoy could be playing double time against Elvin when playing with Coltrane. Brecker will play different changes than what is written in the tune. These personal, artistic choices are part of jazz and not addressed within the simplistic bite or bunch of licks explanation.
Obvious ! So obvious that your comment is inappropriate, irrelevant.
I played a completely arhythmic solo at a jazz festival, and won best soloist - - not one lick LOL - - not one mode, just a bunch of arhythmic notes that sounded really good!!
I would have to listen to it too
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Nobody cares.
@@Fbarrett About your comment, yes
only jazz musicians think that jazz music is the highest form of artistic expression... what a ridiculous thing to say.
Agreed, it's so much of it is technical compared to the artistic part in my opinion
Classical music isn't the highest form of artistic expression. Chad is correct. Jazz music is the ultimate highest form of artistic expression. End of sorry.😢
You couldn’t possibly understand improvising at a very high level unless you are there or close enough that appreciate how hard it is.
As wonderful as the highest level of jazz improvisation is (which is spontaneous composition … based on a huge vocabulary of musical language and its many dialects), I think one needs to seriously go listen deeply to the greatest classical music composers performed by the greatest musicians in recorded history before they get too confident that top-level jazz improv is the highest form.
I think the point is about expression, not making a rank of artistic form. It’s always subjective and non sense to say which would be the best form. But as a musician myself who also enjoys a lot classical and even other type of music, and I assume many musicians would agree, expressing ourself directly into improvisation is somehow the best way to feel free. And remember the biggest genius of classical music you try to compare, such as Bach, Chopin or Lizst, were also great improvisation players…
Nah. Beethoven. Bach. Highest level of artistic expression,music wise. As high as anybody.