Where else in your life are you improvising? How are the elements you improvise with there comparable to the elements of music you improvise with on flute? For example, I love to freeskate: Since I started freeskating, I view every surface as having a certain "friction quotient." Super smooth polished stone is like a 10 and gravel is a zero. Super duper smooth is fun but a dangerous challenge. Super rough is more of a workout and makes some tricks impossible. This is maybe like the difference between playing a passage on flute very fast or very slow. Or all slurred versus all staccato. Sometimes I encounter an unexpected obstacle when I'm skating, like a rock, stick, or crack in the concrete. When this happens, I may have to improvise with my foot position on the skate... or with the direction I skate away. This is kind of like on flute playing through an unexpected burp, hiccough, or spit bubble... Or playing through a passage with your flute placed at a not-ideal position on your face because you don't have time to readjust at that moment. Or playing a different scale segment than you originally intended because you overblew the first note and it jumped up the harmonic series. Where else in your life do you see analogies to musical improvising?

Vic thanks for my private class today. It's very nice and important for me. Thanks

This is how I experience the "warmth" of the notes in the C major scale with a drone tone on C. What about you? When was the last time you improvised with a drone on C? Remember you can share your progress here in the 🌊Improv Waterfall category!!

I found this game to give myself some improvisation challenges (it can be played alone or with others). It’s only available in French, as the designer is French.

Here there are all for to study, to practice song, drone, is excellent