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Originally Posted by Andyrondack
Some people have a very negative attitude to teaching any process or methodology to help students improvise, they seem to believe that the concious brain should have no place in making music , I learned long ago to despise such attitudes.
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Yeah, those opinions come from a very uninformed space, and just need to be discounted.
If you want to remove scales, chords, theoretical knowledge completely, then at a bare minimum a player needs a tremendous ear and the ability to translate what they are hearing to the instrument. That simply takes a lot of work. There's no way around the work.
I have seen people who "freely" improvise with nothing else going into it other than what they feel in the moment. There's nothing wrong with this, but these people cannot improvise well outside of this environment. Their freedom is surprisingly limiting.
A lot of people who think they have a good ear are dead in the water as soon as a song throws a non-diatonic chord change at them.
There's just no way around the hard work.