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tonebase Brass Course

Strategies for Improvising

Taught by renowned trumpet player

Eric Scott Reed

This course is designed for any improvisor, regardless of the instrument you play, to provide some structure toward improving your capacity for expression while improvising. Renowned pianist Eric Scott Reed works with rhythm, melody, harmony, and everything in between.

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    Difficulty: 
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Course Syllabus

Possibilities

Practicing improvisation is about uncovering new possibilities and finding new ways of doing old things. In this lesson, Eric shares a long list of parameters we can experiment with in the practice room or on the bandstand.

Practicing Tips for Improvisors

In this lesson, Eric works with two key tasks that all jazz musicians are told to practice: learning tunes by ear and transcribing. What's the most effective way to tackle these, and what skills do we really want to build?

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Eric Scott Reed
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Eric Scott Reed

Eric Scott Reed is an American jazz pianist and composer who has performed with jazz luminaries such as Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Cassandra Wilson, and many more.

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