🚀 SAM YAHEL: Beyond Licks & Language: Practicing Actual Improvisation LIVE Masterclass (3-Day FREE Trial!) DETAILS: JazzHeaven.com/live Addressing this often-neglected aspect & its unique challenges for the growing jazz musician #samyahel #jazzmasterclass #jazzheaven
✨Sam covered:
👉🏼 Traditional approaches & their inherent traps (& why classic approaches often leave us feeling limited as improvisers)
👉🏼 How to extract valuable improv ideas from transcriptions (hint: less is more)
👉🏼 How to extract improv ideas from non-jazz sources (and even non-musical sources)
👉🏼 Fine-tuning the variables in your practice session, leading to actual improvising & allowing you to gain valuable experience
🗣️ WRITES SAM:
"Practicing improvising presents unique challenges!
As a young student in music school I was always puzzled as to why doing the things I was told didn’t seem to lead to me feeling comfortable as an improviser.
Practicing licks through the keys, patterns, and other things of that nature always seemed to be delaying the actual payoff to some future time that never seemed to arrive.
Eventually (after years, and with some help), I figured out that there might be a better way.
I started finding different approaches to practicing that seemed more practical, have better results and actually were more fun!
In this masterclass, I am hoping to shed some light and address this often neglected aspect of the growing jazz musician!"
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😍 PREVIOUS ATTENDEES:
"Completely original concepts!
Excellent instructor with clear explanations."
"I'll never listen to a classical or Jazz piece the same way again!
Based on Sam's answer regarding whether one would be rhythmically disadvantaged with lots of classical training (which was masterful).
Also his comment regarding time feel was a masterclass in itself (hoping to pull up the video and loop it endlessly).
He's a genius!"
"Sam clearly lives these concepts, and really strikes me as authentically wanting to connect and convey his message.
He is a great listener!
And he was totally on point in answering questions, requesting further feedback/follow up."
"Sam offered a great presentation that was clear & motivating!"
DETAILS: JazzHeaven.com/live
📃 About SAM YAHEL:
A distinctive voice among a new breed of Hammond B-3 organ players on the jazz scene, Sam has earned the top spot in Downbeat’s International Critics Poll as a Talent Deserving of Recognition for many years in a row.
Equally at home on piano & organ, Sam belongs to a rare breed of multi-instrumentalists.
Since moving to New York in 1990, he has worked with a string of notable jazz artists including Joshua Redman, Maceo Parker, Peter Bernstein, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones (on her Grammy-winning Come Away With Me) and Madeleine Peyroux, among others.
Sam has also toured the world with his organ trio as an opening act for Steely Dan, at the request of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.
As a solo artist, Sam has made his most personal statements as both composer and player.
His album "Truth and Beauty" (feat. Joshua Redman & Brian Blade) was selected on the New York Times top 10 jazz albums of the year, and his latest album, From Sun to Sun, garnered critical praise for its unique perspective in combining both his voice on piano and organ into one seamless thread.
Sam has performed with his trio both domestically at venues like the Village Vanguard as well as overseas at prestigious festivals like North Sea Jazz.
✨MUSIC CREDIT👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Joshua Redman Elastic Band - Jazz Crimes (Live)
Joshua Redman - Tenor Saxophone
Brian Blade - drums
Sam Yahel - organ
DETAILS: JazzHeaven.com/live