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Mastery & expression

Improvisation

Free playing that still has structure and direction.

Advanced20 min80 BPM

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Key concepts

  • Building over a loop
  • Layered development
  • Resolving home

Practice exercises

  1. 110-minute unbroken improvisation
  2. 2Record and mark the best minute

Today's challengePlay each note 8 times, listen — unbroken, at 70 BPM.

Practice tempo

80 BPM

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