philwood Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 (edited) Just wondering how many people on here dedicate any time at all to learning phrases? I've found it a great tool especially in improvisation, so i dedicate part of my practice time now to learning say 1 phrase a week in all keys, alongside scales, arpeggios etc. Im tending to pick phrases that I like at the mo. Just thought i'd throw it in here as I rarely hear of people practicing phrases and having just started to do this myself I'd definitely recommend it Edited June 18, 2011 by philwood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Practicing licks is great so long as you are aware how they function over a chord, when not to use them and making sure not to overuse them in your playing. Everyone has their goto licks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithless Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Do you mean learning 'language'? I think it's all you need to get an idea, what you can be working on: [url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcriptions/jarrett%20exercises.pdf"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcript...20exercises.pdf[/url] easy Laimis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Clayton Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 I sure do. Just picked up a great book called 'Jazzology' which has some great phrases/etudes in it for jazz players. Working on those at the moment and they're good fun. Stuart [quote name='philwood' post='1273764' date='Jun 18 2011, 02:08 PM']Just wondering how many people on here dedicate any time at all to learning phrases? I've found it a great tool especially in improvisation, so i dedicate part of my practice time now to learning say 1 phrase a week in all keys, alongside scales, arpeggios etc. Im tending to pick phrases that I like at the mo. Just thought i'd throw it in here as I rarely hear of people practicing phrases and having just started to do this myself I'd definitely recommend it[/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philwood Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 [quote name='Faithless' post='1274422' date='Jun 19 2011, 09:08 AM']Do you mean learning 'language'? I think it's all you need to get an idea, what you can be working on: [url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcriptions/jarrett%20exercises.pdf"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcript...20exercises.pdf[/url] easy Laimis[/quote] Thanks for this Faithless much appreciated, great stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithless Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 AT the same, time, the problem is, mate, that, with learning 'language' there's much more involved than focusing working on transcriptions like that only (though it's a very important bit anyway) - you might want to search posts of "Joe Hubbard Bass", or check his website, to get an idea of what you can do about learning language- by the way, its him whom I got this Jarrett stuff from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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