The joy of improvisation

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From Fear to FreedomMy own story

• Nicholas Engel
• Depression, insomnia, fear, low self image and no
  confidence
• Age.13 Spiritual awakening
• Chord charts introduced
• Improvising at home, worship, healing
• experimentation, making MISTAKES!! Mistakes are
  GOOD!
• Am7 Chord delight
• Edison, light bulbs
• Different instruments at youth
• Jazz degree
• Teaching improv, performing

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What is improvisation?

• The art of creating music spontaneously
• A delightful discovery of new sounds
• Adding passing and auxiliary notes
• Theme and variations
• using one note and experimenting by altering the
  rhythms
• antiphonal clapping,singing,playing with your
  colleagues/students/family/friends
• New melodies, harmonies and rhythms created by
  YOU!
• Come on, take some risks, you CAN do it!!

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Legendary Improvisors

• Bach renowned as the greatest improviser on the
  organ in Europe.
• Mozart
• Debussy
• Chopin
• Etc.etc,etc
• These were according to our knowledge all solo
  improvisors, not group improvisors

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Worldview Cultures

• Worldview shapes our thinking patterns
• Experience
• Education
• Environment
• Improvisation may be outside of our worldview
• If we know 10 then 90 we dont know!
• We can come into a new way of thinking
• We may feel fear initially but that will be
  overcome. eg. TWC child testimony

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Jazz feel

• Yesterdays discussion
• In Swing a four-to-the-bar feel developed (grew
  out of ragtime)
• Lets practice clicking on 2 4 with the hi-hat
• place the one 1 inbetween
• Swing and jazz is all about a flow
• Later well have a blues/jazz jam with Studio
  session band

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Lets Do it / Teach it

• Antiphonal clapping (Winter games drumming)
• Antiphonal singing
• Exact imitation
• develops the ear
• Picks up style/feel
• Learner leads..
• Group percussion, basic rhythm underlying,
  indivs improvise one at a time2 at a time
• Starting from known, moving to unknown
• Using known scales, improvising over known pieces
• Moving towards new scales, genres material
  (Traditional, indigenous, contemporary-FET NCS
  doc.)

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Blues Jam Lets Jam with Christopher Nortons
band Now!

• Experiencing the the joy of
• New delightful discoveries,
• Jamming and trying out your
• Own new rhythms melodies now.
• You can do it, lets experience the Joy of
  Improvisation together!

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Assessing Improv

• IEB Macro Assessment Rubric
• I n time, pulse, flow, metre
• M elody
• P hrasing dynamics
• R hythm-syncopation
• O n Stage, performance plan
• V ariety of chords/harmonies implied by melody
• I n Unity and diversity, improvs differ from
• originals
• S tyle
• Other important aspects
• Space
• Listening to each other (very nb in group)

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Assessment

• Yellow NCS support document teachers guide
• Pg67-76 see PDFs

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