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Tricks to get improvisation to open up for you if you haven’t cracked it yet.

To learn more about Indian/Blues fusion concepts, visit the Blues Raga page on my website.
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Lesson Navigator

0:00 Intro
1:04 Structure of the video

2:33 Music is a language...right?
2:56 Do you need special talent for music?
4:14 Music is the most accessible language
4:50 Miracles of music therapy
6:16 Belief matters...according to science
6:37 How long does it take to learn music?
7:40 Choosing accessible goals
8:24 Everybody needs feedback
9:08 Learning by immersion
9:48 The importance of practice
10:23 Have a little faith...you can't control the process completely
11:43 If at first you don't succeed...

Zen and the Art of Jamming
12:23 Improvisation...spontaneously!
12:52 Ask a Zen master
14:09 Famous musicians talk about “making the technique disappear”
15:10 Focusing on what matters most; muscle memory
15:34 Training your ears
16:10 When spontaneous music happens
16:40 The Farming Analogy
19:08 Bringing new techniques into improvisation
21:17 Making Improvisation a habit
22:34 I used to teach guitar lessons in stairwells...

Tools for learning
23:54 Playing over a drone (link to practice)
24:45 Phrase states and Why drones are so great
25:47 The Secrets of Intervals and Consonance/Dissonance
26:48 How it starts to get more complicated
28:10 how the drone solves phrase state complexity
29:15 Other options in case the drones don't do it for you
30:15 Ear training advantages of drone practice
31:28 They're also really relaxing...like a bubble bath
31:58 My techniques for drone practice (many links)

The Scope of the Blues Raga Series
33:58 More tools...scratching the itch
34:18 Crystallized knowledge
34:53 The Unscratchable Itch
36:00 Blues Raga helps you create new things
36:43 Moving beyond spontaneous jamming
37:26 Finding new musical experiences
38:08 What we've done so far
38:36 Raga performance taking you new places
39:32 Every exercise has a purpose
40:14 Bringing the Major and Minor scales together (Ingrid Plug)
40:43 More tools for phrase manipulation
41:58 Shifting grids and freedom on the neck
42:50 Playing over chord changes
43:40 Advanced tools; style influence, the lick library
45:20 Pro technique – Raga Performance

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