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Post by zontar on Apr 25, 2021 0:21:11 GMT
When I taught guitar I would cover improvising with students--especially in the bands. I found the guitar players took to it more easily than the keyboard players--btu there were a couple that picked up the idea very quickly and they did a great job. Many (most?) keyboard players are taught at a young age to read music, and many can do it very excellently. Much more so than I ever will. But I've also met quite a few keyboard players that simply can't adapt to improvisation and don't want to. It is a very different mentality And yet many do well improvising (Jon Lord for one)-and some students in some of the bands I oversaw as a teacher
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 25, 2021 14:32:48 GMT
Many (most?) keyboard players are taught at a young age to read music, and many can do it very excellently. Much more so than I ever will. But I've also met quite a few keyboard players that simply can't adapt to improvisation and don't want to. It is a very different mentality And yet many do well improvising (Jon Lord for one)-and some students in some of the bands I oversaw as a teacher Of course- many keyboard players are great improvisers, but many find the concept completely alien
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Post by zontar on Apr 26, 2021 2:47:49 GMT
And yet many do well improvising (Jon Lord for one)-and some students in some of the bands I oversaw as a teacher Of course- many keyboard players are great improvisers, but many find the concept completely alien Same with other instruments But some are different Still it can be learned Mostly it takes willingness
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Post by johnreardon on Apr 26, 2021 8:40:53 GMT
And yet many do well improvising (Jon Lord for one)-and some students in some of the bands I oversaw as a teacher Of course- many keyboard players are great improvisers, but many find the concept completely alien Our old keyboard player, who's now retired, wasn't too bad at improvising. Main issue is that he occasionally improvised in the wrong 'style' of the song. It could be a slow blues and he would play something that sounded as if it should be in a musical.
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 26, 2021 12:05:41 GMT
Of course- many keyboard players are great improvisers, but many find the concept completely alien Our old keyboard player, who's now retired, wasn't too bad at improvising. Main issue is that he occasionally improvised in the wrong 'style' of the song. It could be a slow blues and he would play something that sounded as if it should be in a musical. Yeah that's another tough one. Sometimes that works where you play a tarantella over dixieland, which will get a lot of smiles from the audience, but Broadway over slow blues is probably a swing and a miss
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