need to learn improve for jazz music

    
need to learn improve for jazz music    19:43 on Monday, November 15, 2004          
(bluefire)
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does anyone know how to play jazz on the clarinet? how to improve solo on clarinet maybe? i need to learn how to do it.


Re: need to learn improve for jazz music    19:54 on Monday, November 15, 2004          
(Andy)
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Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), playing jazz clarinet well requires most of the same things classical clarinet does. Start with knowing the major and natural minor scales inside and out. Play them normally. Play them in thirds (1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, 5, 7, 6, 8, etc.). Play the arpeggios. Know it without thinking. Then, when the solo comes, you can play any parts of the scale or arpeggios you want, and it will sound good.

The next part is listening. Get as many recordings as you can and pay attention to the progressions of the rhythm section. When you start soloing, practice with easy chord progessions that you can hear really easily (like a 12 bar blues). Listen to how the notes you`re playing fit into the chords.


Re: need to learn improve for jazz music    15:51 on Thursday, November 18, 2004          
(bryan)
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Improvisation is not a skill that can be learned in a short amount of time. Even if you know your scales and understand chord theory, you still wont have a basic understanding of improvisation. You have to listen, listen, listen. Jazz is an aural legacy that has been passed down through concerts and recordings, and as an improvisor you must have an understanding of this legacy. The most important thing to do is listen to recordings, and try to develope a jazz vocabulary of licks, styles of articulation, phrasing, ect. Good luck!


Re: need to learn improve for jazz music    21:40 on Wednesday, December 15, 2004          
(Bandgeek)
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plz do u have any thing else plz post i am interested too in inpro jazz clarinet


   




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