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The Improvisation Music Seminar
What Is The Improvisation Music Seminar?
Improvising music means using harmony, melody, and rhythm to make spontaneous and unique musical statements. The Improvisation Music Seminar is a set of guided activities that enables you to improvise music easily and with enjoyable results. Although improvisation is often associated with jazz, the seminar provides skills to improvise in any style of music. You will emerge from the seminar feeling free to make your own music.
Who Should Take This Seminar?
The Improvisation Seminar is for newcomers who want to learn how to improvise, and for accomplished improvisers who want to progress beyond their current stage. It is especially suitable for musicians who feel that improvisation is an inaccessible mystery or who feel that their creativity is not being fulfilled only by playing written music. Jeffrey's instruction works simultaneously with all instruments, and all styles of music. The age range is teens and adults.
How Will You Benefit?
The normal reaction to learning to improvise is that it is fun and easy. By taking this seminar, you will learn how improvisation is already a natural, everyday experience that can be applied to music. You will find an instant connection with your personal musicality, an unlimited channel for self-expression and creativity, freedom from standards and restrictions, a means to transform emotional states, and a source of ideas for composing. Improvising music increases confidence and resourcefulness in other areas of living, and it encourages teamwork.
A Message from Jeffrey
"Here's what you have when you improvise music: no reading, no practicing, no memorizing, no technical difficulties, and no mistakes. What could be better? Check out Lesson #2 on the One-Minute Music Lessons page."
World Class Music Instruction
Jeffrey Chappell is a gifted, innovative teacher who is renowned for his ability to connect with every student. He has frequently improvised for silent films at the National Gallery of Art and was a member of The Lenox Ensemble, an improvisation group of classical musicians. He teaches improvisation as the Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College in Baltimore and on the faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. He has also taught improvisation to teachers in presentations to various chapters of the Music Teachers National Association. He is also a classical concert pianist, a jazz musician, a recording artist, a composer, and an author of articles for music magazines.