How to Think More Quickly While Improvising

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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Welcome and overview
01:00 Pick a song
01:14 Choose scales (and what I chose)
02:10 Play lines from root of first chord
06:40 Play lines from lowest note on the instrument
10:50 Play lines from any starting note
12:35 Increase rhythmic complexity
15:05 Choose different scales (and what I chose)
16:45 Repeat the above with new scales
17:00 Closing thoughts

[@djmileski]

I’m going to use this to improve my jazz improv on the acoustic guitar. I’ve removed chords from my toolkit to play only single notes (like a horn or bass player) so this definitely applies. Thanks!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Love it!

[@davetuttle9701]

Thank you sir!

[@philprice5712]

Thank you for addressing this. Not one we want to admit to needing but need nonetheless.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you! But I’ll be the first to say I need it haha!

[@jesses4098]

Excellent, as always! Love these exercises!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you!

[@eskilfagerstrom3243]

Thanks for another great lesson, Matt! Interesting and quite a challenge, and as always clear and pedagogical. Just finished an hour with your paradiddles - perfect entertainment for a Friday night. /Eskil from Sweden

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you for watching again! And great job putting time in practicing that stuff!!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

ha en trevlig kväll!

[@eskilfagerstrom3243]

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[@MrDsmith1959]

Thanks

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you for watching

[@bassomatic6055]

This is great stuff. I find myself getting stuck in chord tone with chromatic approach note on beat 4 ruts... alot. This is really going to help in creating smooth ascending and descending lines. While I understand this is a mental exercise, I feel that one can create functional lines by perhaps making a rule that a chord tone is hit on beat one.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Yes exactly! Thanks for watching

[@abhinavkhokhar362]

Also a change in strings ;)
Do tell!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Haha good eye. Yeah these are the Gerold Genssler J-Roque RW ("rainworms"). I had found a used set, and while I like the Corax I was using before, he doesn't make them anymore so I was looking for not only an alternative for the future, but something that had more punch than the Corax. These definitely are more punchy. The Corax has a MUCH wider "spread" of the low notes, but doesn't cut through. These D and G Rainworm strings literally make the floor move so that you can feel it in your feet. The E and A are not quite right, I think, but they're still new and I'm still figuring them out. They don't have the punch of the D and G. But I also noticed that my bridge may have been slightly off position when I last heard another bassist play my bass. The G is quite large, which I like, but it's large enough that it actually feels a bit strange so I'm getting used to that too. Do you hear a difference? Do you like one better than the other? I think the Corax RECORD better but the RWs sound better in real life

[@user-sb6uf1pk9t]

Whew!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

I hear you

[@pgrvloik]

I can never remember which mode is which... So I stick with arpegios and chromatisms, following along the melody.

[@Calcprof]

DOn't use a preposition to end a sentence with.

[@davedave8608]

A: ua-cam.com/video/O6yeLNNVa4A/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Took me a second to process (how ironic)! Ha!