Mixing styles to create your own personal sound By Mattie O’Boyle Today we are going to add another improvisation technique that can help you express yourself; again by drawing on your own musical biography. We are going to focus on taking the rhythm form one musical style and apply it to another style. In this … Read more
Mixing styles to create your own personal sound By Mattie O’Boyle Today we are going to dive deeper into an improvisation technique that can help you express yourself; drawing on your own musical biography. I’ll be using a blues palette of sound as well as a country palette, but you can apply whatever sounds interest … Read more
Extracting the underlying rhythm By Mattie O’Boyle Use rhythm to improve composition and improvisation Extracting the underlying rhythm from your favorite musical melodies or chord progressions is a powerful tool to expand your musical vocabulary and to drive your compositional and improvisational creativity. Furthermore, it is a technique that is actually really easy to do, … Read more
