Learning Phrases

[philwood]

Just wondering how many people on here dedicate any time at all to learning phrases? I've found it a great tool especially in improvisation, so i dedicate part of my practice time now to learning say 1 phrase a week in all keys, alongside scales, arpeggios etc.
Im tending to pick phrases that I like at the mo.
Just thought i'd throw it in here as I rarely hear of people practicing phrases and having just started to do this myself I'd definitely recommend it

Edited June 18, 2011 by philwood

[risingson]

Practicing licks is great so long as you are aware how they function over a chord, when not to use them and making sure not to overuse them in your playing. Everyone has their goto licks!

[Faithless]

Do you mean learning 'language'?

I think it's all you need to get an idea, what you can be working on:

[url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcriptions/jarrett%20exercises.pdf"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcript...20exercises.pdf[/url]


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Laimis

[Stuart Clayton]

I sure do. Just picked up a great book called 'Jazzology' which has some great phrases/etudes in it for jazz players. Working on those at the moment and they're good fun.

Stuart


[quote name='philwood' post='1273764' date='Jun 18 2011, 02:08 PM']Just wondering how many people on here dedicate any time at all to learning phrases? I've found it a great tool especially in improvisation, so i dedicate part of my practice time now to learning say 1 phrase a week in all keys, alongside scales, arpeggios etc.
Im tending to pick phrases that I like at the mo.
Just thought i'd throw it in here as I rarely hear of people practicing phrases and having just started to do this myself I'd definitely recommend it[/quote]

[philwood]

[quote name='Faithless' post='1274422' date='Jun 19 2011, 09:08 AM']Do you mean learning 'language'?

I think it's all you need to get an idea, what you can be working on:

[url="http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcriptions/jarrett%20exercises.pdf"]http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/jazz/transcript...20exercises.pdf[/url]


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Laimis[/quote]

Thanks for this Faithless much appreciated, great stuff!

[Faithless]

AT the same, time, the problem is, mate, that, with learning 'language' there's much more involved than focusing working on transcriptions like that only (though it's a very important bit anyway) - you might want to search posts of "Joe Hubbard Bass", or check his website, to get an idea of what you can do about learning language- by the way, its him whom I got this Jarrett stuff from.