Hi, welcome back. This is week 11, flute lessons and the musical. Today we're going to get into one of the earliest forms of improvising, which is embellishing or playing off the main melody. In the early days of jazz music, improvising took the shape of people taking liberties or putting their own stamp on the melody of the song that was already happening. And this is a really great way to begin your journey, or take it a little step further. In terms of improvising as a language.

The melody is always running throughout the song, and anytime you want to reconnect with it, it's it really establishes the music in a very solid way because it's connected so deeply to the harmony that's underneath it. Again, with the image of the train that we're using. The rhythm is always running The harmony rail is always on the go and the melody rail even when it's not being played is still there inside the music. So let me give you an example of I'm going to play the A section melody one time and then the second time through I'm going to embellish it and make it a little different. So one of the ways you can do this is by approaching the main melody note from right below or right above, holding notes longer or cutting them a little shorter and just generally feeling The the essence of the melody in your own personal way.

Here's an example of it. With the B section melody. I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to play it once regularly and then the second time I'm going to embellish it a little bit. So I really encourage you in the practice video this week to take some risks and try out some different things. whenever you've seen a professional musician playing live, what you're on aren't able to see is how many hours of practice went into what they're doing.

And how many chances they took that didn't work out. So in the practice videos really go for a try to try to do new things and experiment with new sounds and really make it your own thing. All right, great work and I'll see you in the practice video.