Explore Your Inner Melody

Strings | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

Go inside the chords and find the key to improvisation

IMPROVISING MELODIES is one of the most intimidating things a string player can try. Even experienced classical players with superb technique often blanch at the thought of making something up as they go along. Improvising around a melody is scary enough, but you can feel absolutely lost if you're called upon to improvise merely on chord changes. After all, instead of choosing notes from only one scale, you're potentially swung through a series of different scales, each related to a different chord. And even if the chord progression ...

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