Spontaneous jazz improvisation for beginner-intermediate students

Pascal van den Dool

About this exposition

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.

type	research exposition
date	15/05/2023
published	13/07/2023
last modified	13/07/2023
status	limited publication
copyright	2023
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1457990/1457991
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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