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Musical Improvisation

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Well today I am gonna teach you a musical concept called improvisation which is a technique most commonly  used in Jazz and New Orleans derived styles. In its simplest form, improvisation is simply spontaneous, musical creation. That means you play by your soul, making some notes longer while keeping others shorter. There are rhythmic surprises when you improvise over a track. Let’s take Hello by Adele and try to improvise over first few sections of it. First listen to the tune several times carefully and hone your ears with the tune. I am not going to give you any sheet music for this. To improvise firstly we need to know the key that we are in. The tune which we are going to consider is originally in the key of Fmin.   The key tells you what notes belong together, where you can reach out to for extra notes, and how to keep your improvisation moving. You can pretty much make use of only those notes, and you'd probably sound pretty okay with them. Now check out t