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Re: Call and Response?

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2024-07-13 20:14

Thanks to everyone for their responses - I appreciate the discussion and what each of you have added to the conversation.

I especially enjoyed brycon's approach, and also ruben's idea of "in the style of"...great idea!

Hank touched on what is (to me) an important aspect of what I think improvisation can do for a student: the training of intervals. Unfortunately, my aural theory classes used solfedge and voice. As an instrumentalist (who lacked every confidence in vocal abilities and was very self-conscious) I struggled in those classes. Had they given me an instrument, I would have sailed through...but that's another topic for another time, I guess.

So much of what I learned from call and response (and improvising in general) is hard to list because it became so much a part of the "every day" for me. However, I think these are the basics:
1. Intervals - I began to think much more clearly in intervals. Training the fingers to go from a specific fingering to a specific fingering to produce the anticipated sounds/interval the player is anticipating/desiring
2. Fingerings - "Tricky" fingerings/combinations became much easier and less of a road block (This one surprised me, but was quite noticable...my mind approached the fingerings differently than when I saw the notes on paper.)
3. Keys - I began thinking more in specific key/scales - internalizing them, and beginning to understand how they related - where they wanted to lead to, etc. (This is a big one) Thinking in keys and understanding the various uses of each note in the scale to achieve what you want...but coming to it from an aural approach - immediately hearing where it wants to lead instead of a logical/theory/paper approach where rules are laid out to understand and follow later.
4. Beginning to understand the feel of chord structure/changes in a different way.
5. Ease of playing what is heard/thought (I know there are other ways to achieve this - but call and response/improvisation were the method which worked for me.)

Again - thanks to all of you for sharing your thoughts and ideas.

Fuzzy
;^)>>>

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