How to Thematically Improvise

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Peter Martin

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🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Peter and Adam take a question on how to improvise melodies without just running scales.

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0:00.0	Hey Adam.
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:03.0	What's the theme for today's episode?
0:05.0	Today's episode is brought to you by themes.
0:08.0	Oh, so the theme is themes.
0:10.0	Yeah, I like it.
0:11.0	Yeah, we'll see.
0:12.0	Okay. I'm Adam Manus
0:28.8	And I'm Peter Martin
0:30.4	And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast
0:32.1	Music advice and a little inspiration
0:34.2	Coming at you
0:35.2	Just a little inspiration, not too much
0:36.7	We're brought to you by Open Studio Go to open studioiojazz.com for all of your jazz lesson needs. And this is super exciting because you have a new course over at Open Studio Jazz. Did you know that? Wooosh, indeed, I do. What's the name of it? It's called the Major Scale Course, which is a very creative title, Peter. No, it's the major scale course. It's really just me and you, not you, Peter, but me and you, the listener or you, the member, practicing major scales in a variety of different ways. I'm talking linear, thirds, triads, chords, pivots. This is something that you might see Barry Harris do, but we go a little bit even on that with pentatonic and just working it through in all 12 keys. That's right. We practice with you in all 12 keys. It's awesome. And it's a little bit based upon this wonderful quote from Barry Harris. If you don't know your major scales this way, you don't really know them at all. Yeah. And, you know, with everything that we do around here at Open Studio, a lot of times we just like to take one little thing.
1:11.3	We like to go, we like to go very deep. Yes, a mile deep, you know, on a very small subject. A Nordic mild deep. Yeah, so I actually practice with you in all 12 keys. I tell you how fast to play them, what to play. We're talking about practice. Listen, we're talking about practice. That's what I said, yeah. No. Not a game. Not a game.
1:28.1	Nope. We're talking about practice. Zachary. That's right. So go over there to open studio, jazz.com to check out that, the major scale course. Major scale course. Awesome. So today we have a speak pipe.
2:02.6	Yes. This is from Bruce. And Bruce has a very good question, I think.
2:06.9	That's here.
2:07.7	Yes, sort of theme.
2:09.5	Come on, Bruce.
2:10.8	Hi, Peter and Adam. So glad you're back to three days a week.
2:14.7	I love the podcast and can't wait to hear more. One big question. I'm trying
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