Improve in D

I did open mike. I was able to play with Dave singer . I played with once before its improved. I had a totally new experience with play with Rachell vocal guitar and Gloria violin. We had to share a Mike. First time improv with violin sharing a mic. I will share one recording each. Give me your thoughts.. My thoughts I was pleased with singer Dave in tune. Even though I played that song before before it was notexactly the same. The trio with violin. I tended to go sharp on one so I did not know what to expect. I will do more playing them I need to do more listening to the violin. We are going to play again tomorrow night at a gig two songs . I have permission from players to post they are origional songs the vocalists wrote. My friend told me I need to work on stage presence she said that should be my goal for the next year. I am blessed to have them to play with.

Last time in Improv Games I mentioned that if you want to learn how to play the pentatonic scale you might like to learn the flute part I played in Brave Spirit with the Cosmic Butterflies (in a-minor). Why would you want to play with just 5 notes? Because limiting the possibilities frees up your mind a bit (for the other elements of music like groove & intonation!) and leads to creative, pleasant-sounding choices! "Pentatonic" just means "5 notes" and so hypothetically it could be any 5 notes, but usually it's this pattern. Leave out the 2nd and 6th notes of the minor scale to get the minor pentatonic scale: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7... Or to name the notes in a-minor: A, C, D, E, G! Or if you want to play the "major" version, just start on C instead! C-D-E-G-A! (Tip: every major scale has a twin minor scale that is the same 7 notes just with a different starting note - the sixth note of its twin major scale. Likewise the major and minor pentatonic scales ) Playing music with Cabe Lindsay and the other musicians in the Cosmic Butterflies band played an important role in building my confidence that I could lead yall to a similar place of freedom when you improvise. After I started playing with them people started asking me "Where do you teach?" and that's when I created Flutarians. If you have a Native American flute in the key of a-minor you can also jam along with this on that flute. I have one... and while I did not play it in this recording, my solo on the concert flute is inspired by it. Cabe's Lakota. I improvised on this recording in the studio, but I also improvised unique variations of this solo many times with Cabe in his home or around a campfire! If you really want to master the technique of playing with the pentatonic scale, I think it would be good practice to learn how to copy the flute exactly from this song. You will make many mistakes along the way - consider those to be part of the process of discovering your unique flute voice on this song! - some of those mistakes will become "your thing" that don't sound like mistakes but your unique flavor. Once you've learned to copy me in a-minor... learn to mix it up from the straight copy and start incorporating your own unique variations! Then use the Transpose tool to learn it in all 12 keys!!

The exposure therapy must be working, because I enjoyed playing improv in the park today. The guys working are used to me being there and waved at me. There were some moms there with their little ones. I liked some of my pauses and chromatic scales and didn’t like some of the notes were a bit out of tune and I wish I would have had a stronger last note one the slow song.