YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO IMPROVISE / Jazz Tactics #1

Jazz improvisation can be effectively compared to spoken language. It has musical words that appear within grammatical structure to form sentences, paragraphs and ultimately a story. In this context, you are already an expert at improvising—you do it every time you have a conversation. This remake of one of my first videos about jazz improvisation kicks off the ’Director’s Cut’ series of Jazz Tactics videos with one of the central pedagogical premises on this channel. Whether you seek to learn how to play jazz, or just want to understand the music on a deeper listening level, you’ll find videos that will help you do that. ABOUT THIS SERIES This is the first video in the Jazz Tactics series, exploring elements of playing jazz music, especially improvisation, based on my book of the same name and a university course that I’ve taught for over thirty years. The sequential videos in this series will provide a solid foundation of understanding of the principles and practices of jazz impro