Little late, but actually made me belly laugh and not just blow through my nose.

  • AernaLingus [any]
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    2 years ago

    I really want to get to the level where I can start to play around with arranging and improvising like this: not even with that technical prowess, necessarily, but just having the fluency on the instrument as well as breadth of theory and comfort with different styles to be able to have fun like that.

    A series of videos along the same lines which I found entrancing is Nahre Sol's Autumn Leaves videos where she plays that jazz standards in the style of a bunch of different composers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAtZawkqBG8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfTkNmdv4c

    I really appreciate how she adds all these little notes that show how she quantitatively and qualitatively captures the feeling of each composer's works.

    • innocentlurker [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      My first thought was that the reason I could never improvise is that I would just memorize a good one and play it over and over.