Improvisation for Classical Musicians Eric Edberg’s commentary and resources for classicial musicians who improvise, or want to.

Here’s a great video (well, it’s a talking-head segment with great content), titled “Improvisation and Canon inWestern Music” in which musicologist Susan McClary discusses the decline of improvisation during the nineteenth century as the canon of “great works” grew.  It’s from ArtistHouse Music, which turns out to have lot of improvisation videos (as well as [...]

An invitation to explore self-expressive “free” improvisation, in which, as we say in Music for People, “there are no wrong notes.” (I blogged about the comedy of errors I experiened making these videos here.) These videos are cross-posted with my other blog.

Priming the pump of the creative imagination by improvising just one note at a time.