The Euphonic Ear - YT1a, Ornamental ideas, 1-4

Euphonic: [yoo-fon-ik] melodious; smooth and sweet sounding.

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The Euphonic Ear PLP (patterns, licks & phrases) YouTube Series is crafted for all aspiring vocal and instrumental improvisers. The included ideas are crafted to help you incorporate simplicity, creative emotion and space in your musical vocabulary.

Play these ideas from your heart; be creative and alter rhythm and articulation. Change any idea to suit your ear. Make up your own ideas; Ad-lib and extend them with other chord-scale tones to build personally expressive ideas. It’s your musical voice that others want to hear.

Closely listen to recordings of the past and current masters of the Jazz language. The best of them fill the musical space with brief ideas and the creative use of silence. You will hear short statements, repeated motifs, octave variation, and more, as their means of creative expression.

Experiment with just 3 notes and vary them in every possible way. Explore just how much music you can make with only 3 notes. Strive to develop a melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical musical voice. Remember to include silence. Silence is like punctuation. You, and the music must 'breathe.'

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