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Additional
Information for the task of improvising
 The
most common performance for a song, in Jazz,
that includes improvisation is:
Part 1- Everyone plays the song through
one time.
Part 2- Each player takes turns improvising
(soloing).
Part 3- Everyone plays the song one
last time and then ends it.
There are some important rules and not so
important rules to adhere to in the task
of improvising. Here is the first not so
important rule.
Use
the chords for the composers original
melody line.
The
only way that players can accompany you
during a solo is by using a set of chords
that everyone can follow. The easiest set
of chords to use are those chords already
written for the song's melody line. By using
these chords each player, in turn, can play
a solo using this set of known chords and
not get lost or lose anyone else in the
process.
So how does a player make up (improvise)
a new melody line for a set of chords that
are already written?
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