Improvise for Real will teach you how to play your OWN music. Maybe you dream of improvising your own solos in concerts and jam sessions. Or maybe you imagine yourself jamming with friends at parties and expressing yourself with total confidence. Maybe you have ideas for songs and you would love to compose your own music. You can be doing all of these things much sooner than you think! All you need is a simple understanding of how music really works and how to connect with your own musical creativity.
These abilities don't come from memorizing other people's "licks" or studying music theory on paper. What you need is a deeper understanding of music that enables you to connect your ear with your instrument. In other words, what you really need is a creative daily practice that lets you understand music from the inside out, and truly create your own music.
Improvise for Real will take you into this beautiful world of sounds and show you how music and harmony really work. You'll learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you. And you'll learn to express your own musical ideas exactly as you hear them in your mind.
The desire to express your own music
If you are reading this, then you can probably identify with some of the following frustrations, which are a lot more common than you think:
- Are you mystified by people who can pick up their instrument and immediately begin playing along with any kind of music?
- Have you ever felt ashamed of your own musical ability, just because you couldn’t improvise over a particular song or couldn’t find the right notes?
- Do you wish you could play your favorite songs off the top of your head without any need for sheet music?
- Does your heart sink when you see a page full of complicated chord symbols, because you have no idea what’s really going on?
- Do you feel like you're struggling to connect scales and arpeggios together to make a solo? Do you wish you could weave melodies effortlessly through the chord changes and truly express yourself creatively?
- Would you love to be able to participate in jam sessions and feel totally confident and sure of yourself, no matter what’s going on around you?
- Do you dream of being able to discover and express your own music, the music that lies deep inside your imagination?
You’re not alone!
Improvise for Real brings together musicians from all different backgrounds who share your desire to study music as a creative art form. We don't care about learning other people's licks and formulas. We want to express our own music. Our vision of studying music is rooted in the tradition of great art schools. We want to explore the sounds creatively and learn to tell our own musical stories with them. And we believe that our practicing can be beautiful and meaningful every time we play.
The problem isn’t you. The problem is the way you practice.
Everyone can create music. The key to accessing this natural ability is to understand how to study music in the first place. You’re not going to develop your creative abilities if you are stuck practicing scales all day. If you want to IMPROVISE and COMPOSE and CREATE your own music, then you need a daily music practice that has you doing that!
With Improvise for Real, students learn about music through creating music. We study music through jamming, improvising and creating music ourselves. You’ll have complete creative freedom to make music however YOU want to at each level of the method. But the method is organized so that while you are jamming, you are also developing a deep personal mastery of harmony and improvisation.
Improvise for Real is the world's first step-by-step method that teaches you to improvise your own music through progressive exercises that anyone can do. The method starts with very simple creative exercises that you can begin right away. Each exercise lets you master a very simple musical situation and you will learn to express yourself confidently in this situation. As you progress through these creative exercises, the method leads you on a guided tour of the entire world of modern harmony. And you'll be jamming, enjoying yourself and creating your own music every step of the way.