![]() ![]() ![]() Classical etudes are alright, but not that close to what you come across in jazz reading, nor do they contribute much to improving your jazz improv, so I like to read through some of the few "jazz etude" books that are around for that. I think it's a good way to build a bag of licks.įor me, the main use of etudes, though, is as sight reading fodder, and I'd want unfamiliar stuff to read, rather than stuff I wrote myself. ![]() I did some of that in the past, not necessarily entire choruses, composing things like like "25 lines over this 4-bar harmonic snippet based on wide interval jumps" or "some 8-bar rhythm change bridge lines built out of triad pairs," or whatever I'm working on, and I cycle through them with a backing track to hear what they sound like in context, and to try to memorize the ones I find interesting. When you play it up to speed long before you can actually create in real time using the concept. "work", in the sense that by writing out without worrying about "real time" playing, you can then hear how well your concept works Writing out your own etudes can reveal how well your understanding of the improv ideas you are studying
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