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good point. what constitutes a mistake is very different in each genre. and YES, there are mistakes is jazz.
by the_cat_kittles 9y ago
good point. what constitutes a mistake is very different in each genre. and YES, there are mistakes is jazz.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoOnly if the "mistake" wasn't afterward incorporated into the improvisation does it become an actual mistake.
- the_cat_kittles 9y agothere lots of ways to recover, and varying degrees of mistakes, sure.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agobut after "recovering", what would have been a mistake is no longer a mistake.
- the_cat_kittles 9y agosure, some of the best shit happens when recovering.
- analog31 9y agoWith skill, yes. But if you're at my level as an improviser, it's possible to play notes that sound like mistakes, followed by additional notes that don't sound like recovering. ;-) Sometimes, the whole passage just sounds like it didn't work, or that I was lost, which I probably was. There are also chord changes that are too complex for me to interpret in real time. Adding to my woes, between any two wrong notes, there are infinitely many wrong notes on my instrument.
- sjclemmy 9y ago“If you play a bum note, play it a couple more times and it sounds like you meant it” Eric Clapton, I think.
- stuffedBelly 9y agohence it's important to have a good understanding of the chordal context when performing jazz. Outside notes that are too far away from the progression would likely be mistakes, but then there is this exception of atonal music. The more I studied harmony and theories, the more I'm overwhelmed by the possibilities when it comes to composition and improv.