intermediate

Let me know what you think. This is my final for lessons with Tony @ UArts

Hello everyone, here's a videoclip from a clinic on improvisation that I presented at Berklee (last summer) for the Summer Program faculty. The topics covered Tension Resolution, Four Note Groupings and Major 7th #5 Superimposition. The clip features David Clark on bass and myself on piano playing written out solos (that can be viewed/downloaded from here: http://allthingsvibraphone.blogspot.com/2011/07/improv-concepts-by-ed-s…) based on each of those specific improv concepts.

(Note from Tony) - my students have to do lessons each semester and submit them on the site. Sangwon speaks much better Korean than English so he's doing his lesson in Korean.

(Note from Tony) - my students have to do lessons each semester and submit them on the site. Sangwon speaks much better Korean than English so he's doing his lesson in Korean.

Forgive the mistakes at the end of the video. I don't talk about phrasing much near the end, and I meant to... All of these neighbor tones can lead to "1". But, they can also be placed anywhere to disguise the arpeggio by not having the start of the arpeggio (C in the example) start on the downbeat, or a strong beat. The latter being which is how I hear them used more often.

This is an exercise that i decided to write down, in order to share with everyone here. The title " Keeping It Close," is a reference to a concept i try to keep in mind when i improvise, especially on fast tunes with many changes. In essense what i set out to do it play all of the changes of the tune with in an octave of the vibes, without jumping around at all. this concept came from listening to horn players like parker and coltrane, taking notice how fluid there lines are in a very small range, but yet they place the notes so the harmony of the tune and also a line is created.