My teacher used this phrase last night, and I was paying too much attention to the actual lesson to ask what the phrase meant.
Obviously the lesson itself was on improvisation (I would mix up a handful of scales and arpeggios - Am pentatonic, Am blues, A Dorian, and both Am and Am7 arpeggios - and "solo" while he played rhythm.) What makes this "static"? And is there such a thing as "dynamic" improv?
TIA,
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
good question.
static improv uses sheet music.
dynamic improv doesnt.
sorry couldnt resist. :shock:
I've always heard the term "static improv," at least in jazz, used in reference to playing over chord changes that have little or no movement/resolution...that is, basically playing over a repeated chord or two like |: Am :| or |: Am D7 :| ad nauseam...
Thanks Doug, that makes sense in the context of what we were doing.
Cheers,
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
