#lifelong study

[kyreniacommentator]

My Father, a student throughout his life

My Father, a student throughout his life

  By Ahmet Abdulaziz…..

Being a student is a phase of our lives which almost all of us has been through. However, in our young ages when we were students, most of us perhaps frequently passed through a phase where we wanted to get rid of it. (more…)

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[donnagrantis]

Hour 26 - 30

I love the way the altered scale (R-b9-#9-3-b5-#5-b7) sounds, although it's always been a challenge for me to incorporate it into my playing in a seamless and interesting way.  I followed Krantz's orders (see the Improviser's OS below), shedding the scale along the fingerboard through what he describes as the "twelve zones".  With the metronome set to 80 bpm, I practised playing the scale in quarters, eighths, triplets and sixteenths to get it under my fingers, before freestyling for a while.  Then I worked through all 12 keys.  The freestyling part of this exercise through all of the zones could easily be a lifelong study promoting creativity and personal expression.