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Spontaneous jazz improvisation for beginner-intermediate students (2023)

Pascal van den Dool
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The topic of this research arose from what I personally tend to miss in typical common jazz teaching (to beginners) but what I admire so much in great jazz musicians: the spontaneity and conviction of what they play. In this research I design and test out various workforms on two of my students to improve two qualities in improvisation: spontaneity (in short: the ability to adjust to circumstances and be open to new ideas) and genuineness (in short: inner hearing what you will play and the conviction of playing). The students are teenagers that have piano lessons for some time and are getting started with learning to improvise. Grounded in various literature, interviews with jazz educators and a self study, several workforms will be designed. One relatively new idea is global singing: to sing an approximate contour of an improvised melody. This along with other workforms will be treated in lessons which are filmed and analysed including transcriptions of the solos of students. These two qualities are sometimes overlooked and generally seen as ambitious or difficult to work on with students that are not advanced. However, we will see that there will be clear improvements in these areas during the experiment.
typeresearch exposition
date15/05/2023
published13/07/2023
last modified13/07/2023
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyright2023
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1457990/1457991
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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1699744 Notation global singing demonstration lick 2022 All rights reserved
1699746 global singing demo lick piano 2022 All rights reserved
1699749 Global singing demo globally sung 2022 All rights reserved
1787993 Sebastiaan Interview 2022 CC BY-NC-ND
1838004 Interview Rolf 2022 CC BY-NC-ND
1891646 Interview persoonlijke onderwijsfilosofie 2022 CC BY-NC-ND
1891650 Lesson Manuel 6 jan 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
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1900499 Calendar eerste versie 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
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1928818 Lesson Manuel 1.1 beginning solo 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928821 Lesson Manuel 1.2 little global singing 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928823 Lesson Manuel 1.3 without volume first try confidence 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928827 Lesson Manuel 1.4 first reaction without volume 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928830 Lesson Manuel 1.5 totally lost apparently 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928834 Lesson Manuel 1.6 finding a lick without volume 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928836 Lesson Manuel 1.7 long rests first real try 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
1928861 Lesson Manuel 1.8 long rests last try 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
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2118911 Manuel Lesson 3.1 Experience practicing + first solo 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2118912 Manuel Lesson 3 Manuel first try global singing while playing 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
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2132046 Leandro lesson 3.1 experience and first solo 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2132058 Lesson 3 Leandro 3.1 nu wel goed 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2132063 Leandro Lesson 3.2 singing while playing 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2139852 transcription last solo Leandro lesson 3 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2139859 Leandro lesson 3.3 playing with left hand 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
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2142195 Lesson Manuel 1 full 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2142201 Lesson Leandro 1 full 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144012 Manuel lesson 2 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144015 Leandro lesson 2 full 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144018 Lesson 3 Manuel full 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144082 Lesson 3 Leandro full (2) 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144119 Form analysis lesson 1 Manuel - Google Formulieren 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144121 Form analysis lesson 1 to Leandro - Google Formulieren 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144133 Form analysis lesson 2 to Leandro - Google Formulieren 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144136 Form analysis lesson 3 Manuel - Google Formulieren 2023 CC BY-NC-ND
2144142 Form analysis lesson 3 to Leandro - Google Formulieren 2023 CC BY-NC-ND

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