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Jazz improvisation
Rare lesson footage of Jazz improvisation, curated from across the internet. Browse 6 clips below.
Lesson footage captures musicians teaching their craft — explaining technique, demonstrating exercises, breaking down songs, and sharing the knowledge accumulated over careers spent mastering their instrument. These clips are both educational and revealing, showing how great musicians think about music.
Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist invents melodies and lines over a chord progression played by rhythm section instruments (piano, guitar, double bass) and accompanied by drums. Although blues...
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