Since I've joined Steemit I've been making solid efforts and strides with my original classically influenced work, however, most of it isn't finished. I have also been working on my Classical style improvisation, a form of counterpoint performed on the spot loosely based on 18th century rules. I say loosely because it seems like I jump genres and/or centuries in my melodic and chordal transitions.
I've always loved improvising, whether it was solo classical, in a rock band, jazz ensemble, or bluegrass whatever they call it. I didn't start-out improvising classically, but one day I realized that I could do it. It must be all the classical music I've learned. The essential concepts of voicing and movement just make sense to me.
I think it's an important part of music. Classical music was not always the static repetition of work done by prolific figures of our past that it is today. Johann Sebastian Bach was considered a master of Improvisation. In the periods long past, what is now called "classical" music, was "alive". The musicians weren't simply audio biographies, they were vibrant creatives with a purpose. Music is a very strange thing in general. It's almost incorporeal, yet it can feel very real. It is both important and completely unimportant. Thanks for watching and reading.
Great post, I have often noticed the same thing, that a classical musician can play any piece of music put in front of them like a robot, but can't improvise in the moment, like a blues player, or Jimi Hendrix could. I always associated improvisation as being kind of wild and free with the playing, but as you mention Bach was a master of improvisation and it came out sounding like a well thought out composition because he was so good!
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I like to think of classical music as wild and free as well hahaha, but I guess I'm going to have to pioneer that perspective in our current age till it catches on.
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I suppose it comes down to thinking of the "rules" of classical music as "technique." Guitar is the best instrument I can think of as a cross over between the "robot" classical musician and the wild and free musician
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I am glad to hear an excellent improv from you Oliver. Keep it coming.
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So melodically pleasing, it waves along in this really relatable fashion. Love the tuning as well, drop d? Not alot of people can improvise in the baroque style these days - do you know of any other players that are improvising in I guess the style you do? Roland dyens comes to mind. Do you know of yamandu costa from Brazil?
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