8 Jazz Rhythms for Improvisation

Monica Shriver
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Concepts to Cover
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1) Swing Feel

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2) Articulation

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4) Free Improvising using these rhythms

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5) Improvising using the major arpeggio

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7) Listening

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To live is to be musical, starting

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with the blood dnacing in your

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veins. Everything living has a
rhythm. Do you feel your
music? - Michael Jackson

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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

— Cecil Taylor

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