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Improvisation By Degrees
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'Improvisation By Degrees' (IBD) is an interactive
course to develop improvisation skills, for all
instruments.
IBD contains explanations, demonstrations, and
examples, but most importantly, it contains a
progression of interactive drills and play-along
multimedia exercises that gradually develop a
musician's improvisation ability.
With IBD one learns practically how to use scales and
chord notes when improvising on all kinds of chord
progressions.
The training strategy has two main objectives: The
first objective is to train the musician in mastering
the use of pure chord notes ('pillar notes' in IBD
terminology) when improvising on chords, and develop a
strong sense of harmonic and melodic direction. The
second objective is to train the musician in mastering
the use of scales and modes. The importance of
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