Forget Modes - Advice That Set Me Free

[Osensei]

Re: Forget Modes - Advice That Set Me Free

Just play! Establish a feel with the song and go with it. Just like that?! That's it. Alrighty then. I wonder if he visualized the notes on a musical staff, and just was genius enough that he didn't really have to think about what he was doing, he just played it.

There are a couple of schools of thought. One is based on theoretical analysis. I think you'll find more youngsters prefer this method. The old timers from Charlie Parker's era generally practiced the art of keeping the songs melody in their heads and improvising around the songs melody!

I can't say what Parker was thinking, obviously! However, there is a good chance that he used the latter of those two methods.