Hi guys, it's Olivier Babaz. You're about to watch a preview of my full course
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I already talked a little bit about the transition from pizz to bow it's very
important to understand that for the most of us have started music by playing
jazz or playing other styles of music but we played styles of music that are
not really related with the bow so one of the biggest challenges while playing
jazz with the bow is to just hear music with it and as we already saw with a lot
of melodies it's very important that you are able to play the melody first
pizzicato and then put it with the bow because when you play pizzicato you hear
it a certain way that's already working you already know how to make it work so
you can apply that very basic principle to play something pizz that works well
and then playing playing it with the bow you can really apply that principle with
when it comes to improvising so maybe setup set a tempo set a little harmonic
zone and just improvise within it by repeating what you just play pizzicato
by playing it with the bow and it will probably take a few times playing it
with the bow to get it right and to have a different sound but that works
well but take the time to do that find a little riff, a little phrase and redo it
again with the bow afterwards for example if we're in F7
play it again, change the fingerings
so play with dynamics and play with different aspects of how you put
yourself in the rhythm. Another example maybe I will progressively improvise
more and more but it will still be very evident the phrase I play pizz and the
phrase I play Arco one two three four
this one needs some crafting
and the more you do that the quicker you want...your phrases to be
because if your phrase are quicker and quicker you will be lot and you will be
more and more fluent into the transition between bow and pizz and once again I'm
not talking about the physical aspect of changing from one to the other I'm
really talking about the way you hear music with different phrases so let's
continue but with smaller and smaller phrases
so that that's a little bit quick but if you want to practice that practice that
really really really slow so that it becomes more and more natural for you to
go from from one phrase to the other so and start with short phrases so you have
the time to make the transition let's take another harmonic how many context
for example f minor seven
as your comfortable shorten up your phrases and and and tighten up the way
the phrases are chaining themselves
so here it is. Think in order to develop your ability to improvise with the bow
take advantage of everything you already know which is playing pizzicato you
probably already know how to make great solos and how to build great bass parts
with pizzicato so just take advantage of them and use them as a way to build your
arco chops. Thanks for watching that video guys if
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