Faculdade Berklee de Música

Improvisación de jazz

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Aprenda los conceptos básicos de la improvisación con Gary Burton, uno de los improvisadores más reconocidos en el mundo del jazz, incluidos los procesos mentales, melódicos y armónicos que contribuyen a las habilidades instintivas que aplica un improvisador cuando realiza un solo. Si bien a muchas personas les gusta el jazz y entienden que los músicos a veces "inventan" las notas que tocan durante una presentación, la mayoría -incluidos los mismos músicos que están aprendiendo a improvisar- no saben con claridad qué procesos específicos se llevan a cabo para que esto suceda. El propósito de este curso es introducir los conceptos básicos de la improvisación moderna y cómo dominar las distintas habilidades musicales y mentales que intervienen. El autor del curso Gary Burton codifica un buscado abordaje de la improvisación que constituye el centro del plan de estudios de Berklee College of Music desde hace décadas. Los estudiantes que realicen el curso sabrán qué practicar y cómo practicar los diversos aspectos de la improvisación, además de entender de qué manera el improvisador se comunica espontáneamente con los oyentes a través de sus creaciones musicales.

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LA IMPROVISACIÓN COMO IDIOMA

Dado que todos los que toman este curso comienzan desde un lugar diferente en términos de experiencia como improvisadores, es importante que primero tratemos algunos materiales básicos. Comenzaremos nuestro viaje explorando el lenguaje utilizado por los improvisadores de jazz. La improvisación se asemeja al lenguaje en muchas formas. Con la música, adquirimos fluidez cuando el vocabulario (escalas y acordes) y la gramática (progresiones armónicas) son asimiladas al contenido de una conversación o historia (temas melódicos y estructura), y ya no tenemos que pensar de manera consciente en ellos mientras tocamos.

Estudiando improvisación2:26

Lenguaje hablado y música improvisada4:24

Narración de cuentos3:08

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Gary Burton

Okay, we've covered the basics and now let's get started.

Let's get to work. The first thing to understand is the

similarity. And relationship between spoken word and

improvisation. Our brain functions very much the same in

both of those actions, so let's look how, at how speech works first.

Let's say, what I want to do is talk about And explain to you what this thing

is. And immediately, soon as I have the urge

to communicate this information, my brain calls from my memory words that go with

it. Mallet, vibraphone, yarn, rubber ball,

rattan, flexible, and so on. And, you know, those words are all c-,

you know, connected to this item in my memory, and they're all stored in my

memory. We also have grammar, because it's not

sufficient for me to explain this just by spouting random words.

We also have to be able to arrange them in a logical sentence structure, to

better understand. And that's what grammar does.

We learn language normally as our pr-, primary language as a child, both by

imitating and listening and tr-, testing trial and error, and we also study see it

in school and learn even more detail about how grammar works and so on.

Always adding to our vocabulary and our skill with grammar as we grow up and as

we become more educated. There's also content when I explain

something things. there's a certain order to it.

The first statement introduces it. I'm going to tell you about this mallet.

And then each sentence that I add adds to the story, tells what, how it was made

you know, what the purpose of, of the different materials are, and so on.

And so it makes it into a full explanation, a little story is told.

So we have vocabulary, grammar, and content, and the same is true when

improvising. For improvisers, the vocabulary is the

notes, the sounds that we hear. we learn the, the names of the notes, and

the sounds of the notes, and this also includes scales and chord outlines.

So, these basic sounds of music are stored in our memory and we can call them

up when we need them, depending on what the circumstances in the music at that

moment, will call the right notes up, to play them.

There is also a grammar to music. You know just as conversation is

constantly moving forward in time as we talk, and add more to it and so on.

The same thing happens with music, of course.

We're in time, we're moving forward, and there is movement and motion as the

harmonies change from one to the next. the way chords resolve, there are rules

about which chords lead to which chords, and what kind of movement it is, and so

on. Just like there are rules of grammar,

there are rules for harmony and for music.

And we learn how that works, and that also gets added to our memories.

So that we can then make musical sentences that sound logical to people

who are listening. And finally there's content.

Just as in words when we're explaining something or telling a story or whatever,

we do the same thing when improvising. our improvisations are fragments of

melody that are connected together. And as you listen to them.

Then you follow from one to the next and one to the next, and they follow a

logical development. And and then you have a solo that can

hold peoples attention. So we have the same three elements of

language as in improvisation as we do in spoken language.

So give that some thought and we're going to look at ways that it's put into

practice.