A focus on discord and resolution is, I believe, one of the most useful approaches for the beginner improviser. Of course, discord and resolution are dependent upon harmonic progressions but there is no need for the beginner to know why certain combinations of sounds create dissonance while others are concordant.
What creates tension will vary from [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Discord and Resolution
Posted in Improvisation, Music Education on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Songs for Summer
Posted in Creative performance, Improvisation, Music Education, Music Technology on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just spent the half-term week walking Dorset’s Purbeck Hills and glorious coastline. It’s been some years since I managed to get away to do some serious walking at this time of the year, and it was wonderful to wind along the paths in all all their flower-lined splendour. We had plenty of rain but, [...]
