Quick Improv Tips
• Everyone can improvise – everyone
• Simplicity – simple always works
• Experiment (usually not at the gig 🙂 ) – play anything, try new things, have fun
• Learn some theory & practice scales – scales & arpeggios are the building blocks of 99.9% of all music
Tools
- Scales
- Chords
- Octaves
- ‘Blue note’ – flat 3rd
- Pizz AND Arco
- Rests
- Short / Long
- Slides
- Trills
- Turns
Where to Start
Chord tones – 1,3,5 of a scale / can be extended to b7 & 9
The blues scale (1, b3, 4,b5,5 b7,8; for example – Bb, Db, Eb, E, F, Ab, Bb)