SESSION 7: Creating Expectations Through Phrasing Choices

from: Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle with Joe K. Walsh

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Learn to improvise on fiddle tunes, create new melodies over chord changes, practice the arpeggios and scales you need to play jazz tunes, and more. Joe lays out his approach to improvising and practicing improvising, with exercises and solos that illustrate his unique, widely acclaimed, freewheeling style.

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SESSION 7: Creating Expectations Through Phrasing Choices

SESSION 7 Q&A

SESSION 7: Creating Expectations Through Phrasing Choices

This session looks at phrasing choices and ways to create patterns and expectations that will help you create variety and surprises in your improvising. Joe gives you some exercises that will help broaden your phrasing sensibilities, and looks at creative ways to use (and sometimes not use) the chord tones you've been working hard to internalize. The session also includes a quick drive-by look at one Joe’s favorite mandolin solos: “Candy Girl,” as played by Darol Anger.

Consonance and Dissonance Examples (Available to subscribers)

Two-Bar Phrasing Exercise (Available to subscribers)

Two "One-Note Solo" Examples (Available to subscribers)

Two-Bar Phrasing Exercise Examples (Available to subscribers)

Darol Anger “Candy Girl” Solo (Available to subscribers)

Consonance Example MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Dissonance Example MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Blues in G Play-Along MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Expectations Example 1 MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Expectations Example 2 MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Expectations Example 3 MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Expectations Example 4 MP3 (Available to subscribers)

"One-Note Solo" Example 1 MP3 (Available to subscribers)

"One-Note Solo" Example 2 MP3 (Available to subscribers)

Two-Bar Phrasing Loop MP3 (Available to subscribers)

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