Klarinet Archive - Posting 000444.txt from 2000/06

From: Sheldon Sper <sperintl@-----.es>
Subj: [kl] Notes & jazz
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:32:03 -0400

Your reading facility depends on the jazz style that you want to play.

It is easier to improvise on old dixieland songs because the chords are
fewer and simpler than in other styles.

Most improvising is done on chords rather than on notes, and since the
adnvent of bop with Charlie Parker (gross over-simplification, I know)
the chords are more complicated, usings 9ths, 11ths and 13ths, so called
'super structure chords".

In the last few years jazz improvisation also uses pentatonic runs and
lots of chord replacements (which really just adds more dissonances to
the phrase around the chord).

Summary: It is fun to improvise at any level, but as the level advances
so does the complexity and your obligation to gain more technique,
including reading, sight-reading and chord-reading.

Most important - have fun.

Sheldon Sper

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