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?

I have been listening to Victor Wooten's book The Lesson, and it has been so helpful for me. It is a book that is liberating my playing, and what he is teaching goes along with everything Vic is teaching or unteaching us. I decided to try to play a random song that youtube suggests. I figured out the key and only used the first 3 notes of the scale to improv on, so I could focus on things like movement, dynamics, etc I found out the key was in Bb before I recorded this. Using only those 3 notes was very helpful and worked. What I liked, is that I felt like I was more free than ever and what I didn't like was that I jumped octaves too much in one phrase. If you haven't read or listened to The Lesson, I would highly suggest it.

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?

Here it is, some parts successful, others...creative 🤣

Post all your progress videos in this category!!! - Anyway Up, Anyway Down - Free Improvs - Adjective Animals - Chord Progressions - Classic Rock Standards - Your Favorite Songs to Play Along & Jam With! I'm calling this Category THE IMPROVISATION WATERFALL because I know there's going to be SO MANY IMPROVS flooding this category it's going to feel like a waterfall of music!!! Or drinking from a firehose lol!