JAZZ AND IMPROVISATION
I teach structured improvisation individually, in duets, group workshos and i also worked as a teacher of jazz improvisation for students of classical music at the music Academy in Ljubljana. Some issues I work on:
- strong focus on time control (early enough decision making, orientation within the bar, four bars, longer periods)
- relative and absolute understanding of notes (understanding the harmonic structures and scales)
- visualisation of the fingerings
- story telling (through the architecture of the rhythm)
- technique of sound production of the right hand
- great vocabulary of the folk music for improving improvisation
- using pop/rock riffs for understanding melodic tensions
- bowing patterns (dances of the right hand)
- creating rhythm with melody only