Welcome to week eight flute lessons in the music coach program. This week, we're going to expand on what we were doing last week, and be doing more things over the form of the entire song. So in this week's practice video, you're going to be switching between playing the A section melody and the A section chords, and then playing the B section melody and the B section chords in different orders. Now, when you're doing this at first, it can be a little tricky because the track is not going to stop if you make a mistake or if you get lost in the form. And the form is what we call the entire a BB structure. And this is a really good practice because in real life with real musicians, the song doesn't stop.
If you get lost, which will happen. It happens even to professional musicians you just don't notice because they're good at knowing how to jump back. In the analogy I like to use with this. It's like if you're standing next to a river and your hat falls in, you can't reach down where you drop it. Because it's gone. It's down the river.
If you want your hat back, you got to run down the river and figure out where you can pick it back up again. And because music is always flowing in real time, if you get lost in the melody, see if you can work on listening for where the beginning of the next section is. And the same thing when you're playing the bass parts. The other thing you're going to be doing is some improvising at the end over the entire form. And I want you to just keep expanding, keep trying this out. And remember, you're developing language and the ability to express more in the moment in your own way.
And this is where a lot of the real juice and playing music comes from. Just be patient. Don't worry about whether you're sounding good or not. It's kind of not a relevant question to ask whether it's you're making good music or not good music. It's just about expressing and speaking. And in some of the next videos, we're going to work on learning some scale patterns to expand the vocabulary you can use when you're actually improvising.
Alright, keep up the great work and I'll see you in the practice video.