Improvising - Matching A/Bs and jam tracks?
Sat, 04/26/2014 - 14:14
I found your video with Jo Tartaglia (Applying Chorus Forms - Part 1) really helpful in terms of how to structure improvising practice. Especially in terms of sticking to a single turnround until it's engrained.
So - I'm taking the first four bars of Gary's Blues as the A. And I'm using the turnround from the first chorus of Easy as B. And I have a set of jam tracks. That A/B is working really well for some of the tracks, but not for others (a slow BB-style track and a jive, for instance). Should I adapt the lick to fit (like leaving out the pulls, for instance), or should I pick jam tracks to suit? And maybe for fast jam tracks, switch to the turnround at the end of the 2nd chorus of Temperature?
Sorry to pester you.
Hello Kirsty. All of the above is great. Using a jam track that matches well is what most students do, and it stops there. If you have the skill to adapt to different types of grooves, then fantastic, you're really going to milk every cent of value out of each lick you learn and this will help you develop a bullet-proof lick vocabulary.