@Sheri Hudgins played with me for a whole hour at the fruit festival yesterday! Go team Flutarians Improv! I haven't listened to the recording yet, but an attendee captured this moment and I thought I'd share with a yall a peek into our day yesterday! 🙌

Ever since I saw this TED talk by Daniel Kish - who's blind - talk about how he uses echolocation to navigate the world I listen to my flute differently. You will notice that the echos of your flute sound different in your practice room vs your garage vs outside vs an auditorium. Now, I listen carefully and I can "see" with my ears a little bit about my surroundings. It helps me know how it's going to sound to someone sitting at the back of the auditorium too. Hope you find this interesting!

I learned this song earlier today with Online Jam, a new Skool group! After sharing another recording with yall, I realized I needed a backing track video I could share with you so I went and found this one. Here's my improvising with it. See how I spend half of my time playing the melody recognizably and half of the time improvising more and more with it? Reading jazz melodies can be a real challenge rhythmically. Often the way they "feel" is not expressed in the chart. Often notes written as 8th notes are played with the first one longer than the second, "swung." I had the benefit of hearing a singer give a live interpretation of this song today. But I was otherwise not familiar with it. It was fun to explore how my unique voice might take the notes on the page and make them come alive with a new personality for this song. I'd like to hear your interpretation. Will you share it in the 🌊Improv Waterfall too?

Do you know this song? I learned it today with a new skool group, Online Jam! I counted 3 rough moments. An accidental overtone a cracked note. Getting tired. But I really loved studying the melody of this ballad!!

My friend Rositsa reminded me of this sweet song when she posted it this morning in another group. I'd been thinking this would be a sweet song to improvise with! Were you a Muppets kid?