hi i'm Olivier Babaz and we're here at discover double bass
filming a new course about improvisation
i'm joined by Sam Dunn on guitar and we're talking a lot about improvisation within a duet context
one of the questions we get asked a lot is how can we play out and by playing out we're talking about
how to play out of the harmony or how to play out of the rhythm while still playing a tune so that's
a that's a big subject but to me there's a way to approach it with which is instead of thinking how
to go out of the harmony it the question is more about how to come back in what i mean by that is
that when you're playing in a chord with with the right notes and the right rhythm it's relatively
easy to go out of it let's hear it so over b flat seven to f uh f7 chord one two three four
so i'm playing in
now i'm going to move out and i didn't come back in
if i don't come back in that's what's not working but
so it's really more about uh how you manage the fact to get back into the harmony and back into
the rhythm it's more that question that has to be asked than the question of how to get out
of course how to get out of the harmony is just just play
any note that's not part of the chord once again one two three four
i'm out in
out
So the basic thing is to be extremely uh sure of what you're playing when you're in so play
really basic note play one five seven build little riffs repetitive stuff that you can
really recognize when you're playing them at at one point just changing drastically
and the really important stuff is to get back into the first card
so for instance if i'm playing something bluesy over b flat
i'm moving
and
i'm always getting back to my original reef or my original canvas being it harmonically
or rhythmically let's try that over a blues maybe a b flat blues at the same tempo one two three
and i'm going to
so i hope that was clear and that answered a little of that really long question and if
you want to know more about improvising and pre-improvisation especially in a jazz duet
setting go to discoverdoublebass.com to know more about that course