I welcome back. This is week 10 of Bass Lessons in the music coach program. This week we're going to get into one of my favorite things about music, which is improvising. to improvise or take a solo is something that comes naturally to all of us. It's just simply expressing emotions and feelings through sound and musical language in the moment. Now, if you don't have much experience with this or none at all, which might be the case, it's totally okay.

We all had to start at the beginning. It's a lot like learning how to speak a language and express yourself in it. There's a big difference between learning how to read and write a language and to be able to freely express yourself in that language. Think of children for a moment. And when they're learning to speak a language, they're often unable to have enough vocabulary to really express what they're feeling. And they struggle with it a bit that can be a little bit frustrating.

When you're starting out improvising, it can feel a little bit like this one, you're really just in the beginning stages. I encourage you to be brave and bold and stick with it and really try and continue on with it until you start to feel comfortable. So in this week's practice video, you're going to be improvising sometimes in first position, with the G major scale starting on the E string. And other times I'm going to get you to improvise just on the G string using the G major scale, one octave going up and down the G string. And then at the end of the practice video, I want you to practice playing the melodies for both the A and the B sections. By yourself without The saxophone part being in the recording as well.

All right, great work and we'll see you in the practice video.