Episode 7 – We Need To Talk About Improvisation.

A Talk About Improvisation & How You Can Develop Your Creativity. Learning to improvise is the Holy Grail for a most musicians. For some, however, it's a never ending source of frustration. If you work hard on your technique, how can you then transform this into improvisations that you feel are from the heart and not just a bunch of pre-learned lick ideas. In this podcast, GMI founder Ged Brockie discusses improvisation and how you can develop it within your musical life. Podcast Ep 7 – Table Of Contents * 1.12 Definition of improvisation. * 2.30 The true reason behind technique. * 5.00 How to understand the language of music. * 7.15 The secret behind speaking the language of music. * 8.20 Becoming fluent in the language of music. * 10.27 Is improvisation really "making things up on the spot"? * 13.00 The chords, scales and arpeggios to think about when improvising. * 14.32 How to become a better improviser and the paradox. * 15.30 What Joe Pass said about improvisation. * 19.00 Making improvisation more complex than it needs to be. * 20.00 An example of un-needed complexity and modes. * 22.19 My approach to to learning how to improvise. * 23.38 Contextualization in improvisation? * 28.13 Summing up and final thoughts. Check Out All Our Other Podcasts Check out our podcast page which includes all our podcasts to date with news on up and coming episodes.