Tag: Jeff Agrell
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Books for Free-Style Improv
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Read more: Books for Free-Style ImprovIf you’re interested in improv and you like to read as well as play the music, like me, check out these improvisation guide books:
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Summer Improv Ensemble
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Read more: Summer Improv EnsembleI’m leading two freestyle improv workshops June 22 & 29, 2010. Here’s some of the exercises we’ll practice: Warmup One sound (from Tom Hall): Going around the group, each player plays a single sound We can do this with a beat or without. Direct your attention as we do this: 1. Pay attention equally to…
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Improv Class End-of-Semester Wrapup
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Read more: Improv Class End-of-Semester WrapupAt the end of my first semester teaching improv class, I am smiling about how much fun it was, despite the very small class. We practiced some great ear-training exercises, like follow the leader by repeating a 4-beat snippet of melody, predictably trickier the less diatonic the melody. Another good drill we liked (which you…
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Improv Class Experiences
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Read more: Improv Class ExperiencesThis fall I’ve been teaching a class in free improv to two adult students at Lexington Music School, both experienced musicians. We’ve had a lot of fun as we practiced crafting music in the moment. One student is continuing and we’d love to make the class a larger group. If you’re curious, and somewhere northwest…
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Improv classes and composition lessons
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Read more: Improv classes and composition lessonsI’ve talked to various teachers who tell me that there’s a lot of attrition in their private teaching studios. Parents have lost jobs or are moving or are just cutting back. So it’s a bad time to launch myself into teaching. But that’s what I’m doing! I’ll be offering an improv class – Free Improv…