How to Practice Improvisation
Chick Corea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfG1P0nm2v8

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0:04 How do you practice improvisation? It's analogous to to how do you breathe? How do you practice breathing? Like how do you practice walking?
0:17 But anyway, whether it's walking, breathing, playing the piano, thinking, whatever you're practicing, as soon as
0:25 you put the word practice in, as soon as you're studying something, you trying to study it to improve it, to to make it better.
0:32 Uh my my suggestion is when it comes to study that that we use this um principle that that I've described in some detail in previous workshops. You
0:45 can look over them again. Uh called gradients. It's just you do it step-by-step. Think of a Think of a Think of a a a
0:55 a newborn baby, right? They're not walking yet. Right? They want to walk. So so you know what around one around a year old or
1:04 um right around there, year old, little older, they start to get up on their feet, you know. How do they learn to walk? Well, they walk
1:12 It's a gradient. They You You know how you you're wild the first step. The parents go, "Wow, he walked."
1:20 Look, he took a step and then he fell down. But then he got up and he walked again, right? It's a good example of gradient of you know, and then then what
1:29 does he but but you see the the purpose that little tot has at that point to want to walk. He doesn't care how many times he falls
1:37 down. He just keeps getting up and he keeps doing it and he keeps succeeding little by little, you know, till he's running a marathon a
1:45 couple of years later. Right? So it's the exactly the same principle of of how you practice improvisation.
1:53 Like wherever you are in terms of your fluency or how well you can get it going, you have to start there and just keep doing it. You keep
2:03 doing it and doing it and doing it. And if you keep If you don't If you don't stay If If you don't keep going
2:12 too far over your current ability level. Just keep pulling it back to where where you you make it smaller adventures rather than a
2:22 making it a If you make it an adventure that gives you a loss and you go, "I can't do that anymore." then you're out you're not practicing
2:33 correctly.