Originally posted by keysvocalssax:
One helpful hint that is magic, not only for time, for phrasing ,for coherent ideas, but for timbre and pitch is this: While you play and/or sing, imagine yourself playing and/or singing the next phrase before you actually execute it. Of course you will overlap, and you will lose concentration until you get it down.
Try this to prove it to yourself: Record yourself playing and/or singing a familiar tune, and improvise on it for a chorus or two. Do this in you usual intuitive fashion. Then recordthe same tune while pre-imagining yourself playing
and/or singing each phrase as you play.
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