I love jazz!!

[eastside9008]

I love jazz. I play tenor saxophone in my jazz band at my high school. I need some advice on improv. Any pointers? I have two solos in our upcoming concert and i need some advice on how to make my solos better through improv. Any pointers are greatly appreciated.

 

[mannysee]

hmmmn, how about playing a melody within the melody?

 

[eastside9008]

thanks mannysee

 

[cwr89]

if anyone needs help with improv... it is gonna be me alex!!! heheh

just play around with it though!
~Casey

 

[seevay]

like you said, i also love jazz

 

[stonetoflesh]

The avant/free saxophonist Evan Parker once said that the only way to practice improvising was either to improvise or to think about improvising...

Seriously though... Along those lines, here's what I'd suggest. Grab the charts for the tunes you're soloing on and just improvise over the changes for the solo section to a metronome (clicking on 2 & 4). Over and over and over. Play scales, arpeggios, melodies, sequences, whatever you can think of; however you do it, you just want to be comfortable with those changes when it's time to step under the lights. Once you're there... just be a conduit, a channel for whatever wants to come out.

 

[MsAnne]

I met the love of my life because of Jazz tickets.
I loooove Jazz.

 

[mannysee]

okay, here's another tip (if it helps). Now i don't know what kind of jazz you will be playing, but usually when i am listening/playing jazz i imagine a scene/imagery which seems to suit the music i am playing. So while i am playing the music, i am walking through a scene in my head. So when having to improvise, i just continue walking through the scene and play what i see in my head. Is that odd???