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Matt Butler and the Matt Butler Quartet are based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Thematic Improvisation Part 2 - Making something out of nothing

Today we’re going to look at serial compositions. Let’s see how we can take a set of numbers and derive a musical motif from it.

Thematic Improvisation Part 1

Thematic improvisation occurs when playing becomes based on musical ideas that we pull from the head. Matt Butler explains in this first of two parts.


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