[Dixielandjazz] Learn Dixieland Style for Trumpet

[Ron L'Herault]

It may be prudent to start with a less spectacular player, say Bunk Johnson
to listen to for inspiration in learning how to improvise.   Learn the
melody first and then start changing it.  Alter the timing of the notes.  If
you know chords, pick a different note that fits in the chord for one or
more of the melody notes.    As an exercise, listen to a recording of Bill
Baily Won't You Please Come Home.   While listening to it, play the tune
Over the Waves or Chiri biri Bin.  If you can make them fit in with Bill
Baily, you have the basic idea of improvising.

Ron L

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Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Learn Dixieland Style for Trumpet

1) Go to YouTube, search for Louis Armstrong, turn your computer volume up
as high as your neighbours will allow, do your very best to keep up, but
don't worry about getting it 'right' for at least the first forty or fifty
years.

2) Listen, listen, listen to every player you can find.  When you find a
player, find out who they listen to and find their music too.

3) experiment and play, take something really simple that you already know,
Happy Birthday or When The Saints, and try to play it "Like Louis" or "Like
Bix" etc etc.  Start by adding just the articulation, the start and stop and
sustain of the notes, the playing with the time, worry about whole
improvisations later, just take what you know, take what you've heard, and
then go* jazz it up!*
*
*
4) if at all possible, find some other musicians to play with.  your
community may have a community band who might play at least a little
dixieland and probably marches and hymns that were the foundation of
dixieland, go join up and again, listen listen listen, learn the vocabulary
-- as a child, you didn't speak your mother tongue perfectly for a long long
time, but that didn't stop you from having something to say! :)


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Wildan Abdat
<wild.an.abdat at gmail.com>wrote:

> is there any recommendation basic song to learn improvising this great 
> music to get in blend with the joy?
>
> Thank You
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