Music Theory Through Improvisation: A New Approach to Musicianship Training Ed Sarath
Publisher: Routledge

In popular music and jazz, music notation almost always indicates only the basic framework of the melody, harmony, or performance approach; musicians and singers are expected to know the performance conventions and styles associated with specific genres and pieces. Situation called free improvisation is a given that is rarely made conscious: to explore and discover one's own pleasure through the immediate experience of sound, as Attali categorized the new approach of music-making he called “composition. This kind of scenario is not only possible; it is likely the most apt description of the music school of the future. This means that there IS a simple way to go through music theory (more than one in fact), but it also means that if you encounter these thins in the wrong order, then you are going to be completely confused. Attali points to what is central to free improvisation, “not a new music but a new way of making music,” that must first satisfy the players apart from any commodity or cultural value, and so is not to be counted as a genre . But I questioned whether students typically acquire the know-how they need to attain lasting careers in the new music economy. Perhaps this is not the best approach to take for preparing our music graduates to succeed beyond their training. In fact, as we are going to see in a minute, there are many approaches to music theory that are common on the net that are simply damaging to your progress if you try to follow them. In Part I of this post, I claimed that industrious musicians can earn ample monetary and psychic incomes owing to the vast demand for music products and services. A lot of musicians can't seem to write songs or create their own guitar solos at the same level as they can “play” their guitar. Here, I contrast the old and new . And I strongly suggest working with an excellent teacher to help you through this. Music can be divided into genres and .. Not having memorized all the notes in the key(s) you're working Aural Skills (Ear training) Problems. Not knowing your fretboard well enough so that you don't need to think about where the notes are as you are playing, improvising and writing music. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms.