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Dom Franco
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Posted 25 Jan 2019 9:59 am |
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I am wondering how many of you that play professionally (or perform before a live audience) improvise during solos?
When I played with a band that had recorded material or special arrangements with worked out solos, I of course played my memorized parts and rarely improvised.
If I was "sitting in with a band" or doing studio work it was mostly fills and playing from my bag of licks and tricks.
Now that I play a lot of solo gigs (with tracks) I am improvising like crazy. It is fun and very exciting "flying by the seat of my pants" but sometimes I play some clunkers. For the most part the audience doesn't notice but it bugs me.
So now before my gig later today, I started wood shedding on those parts that are difficult. (fast picking, quick chord changes etc.)
 Dom
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Mike Neer
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Posted 25 Jan 2019 10:15 am
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Always. As I use a live band, I often improvise the arrangements as well.
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Brad Bechtel
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Posted 25 Jan 2019 5:30 pm
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That's the funnest part of the song in my opinion.
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David M Brown
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California, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2019 5:59 pm Re: Improvisation during live performance
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| Dom Franco wrote: |
I am wondering how many of you that play professionally (or perform before a live audience) improvise during solos?
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Always. |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2019 11:06 pm
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Even if I learn something pretty much note for note off the record, in six months (or less) my own ideas have crept into it.
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Dom Franco
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Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 26 Jan 2019 8:52 am
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Clyde, That's also what I do with the melody (head) of each song. And over time I have made up my own version, with slides, harmonies and little grace notes that were not written.
But when it comes to the solo I always used to begin by playing off of the melody again, and it has started to sound stale to me. (I have been performing some of these songs for decades)
Recently I have been leaning more and more toward complete improvisation over the chord changes. It is wildly exciting and I never play the tune the same way twice. Of course there is some risk of hitting some clams, so I find it a balance between playing in some "safe" pockets and reaching out into space to play a lick I have never thought of before!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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David Knutson
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Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 26 Jan 2019 10:27 am
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I pretty much always improvise. When I find that my improv in a tune is starting to sound suspiciously like the last couple of times I played it, I try to remind myself to dig a little deeper next time.
Occasionally I will try to throw in a short melody phrase from a totally unrelated song that the audience may or may not catch.
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Peter Jacobs
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Peter Jacobs
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Dom Franco
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Beaverton, OR, 97007
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Posted 27 Jan 2019 8:27 am
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Since starting this thread I have performed several times, being much more aware of my licks and solos. Without realizing it, I have been just rotating instrumental phrases and memorized gimmicks in each song.
I really need to sit down and practice over some new chord changes to stretch out a bit.
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