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Comme il l’a expliqué au National Geographic, « on aurait dit que le cerveau mettait en veille toute sa capacité d’autocritique ». Lorsqu’ils improvisent, les musiciens ne cherchent pas à repérer les erreurs et ne s’arrêtent pas pour les corriger. Les maîtres de l’impro apprennent comme les bébés : ils se lancent, imitent et improvisent d’abord et

If you are seeking out the secret source of swing, a good place to start is with the locking together of the bass and drums.

For a jazz quartet to produce great music, discipline is as important as improvisation and serendipity. It’s not magic, even if the result is often magical.

The principles of combination playing are fairly simple. Let's take our old friend, the C major scale, out for a walk:1. Play the C scale only using two notes per string:Notice that with this fingering, you move downthe neck as the scale goes up; and that you move upthe neck as the scale goes down! Isn't that interesting? I wonder what might be the

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Listen to Count Basie’s recording of “Li’l Darlin’” if you want to hear how this is done at a very high level of virtuosity.