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Originally Posted by Italuke
This right here. Exactly. Unrehearsed improvisation is very much not a myth. The language analogy is also dead on. We usually improvise when we speak. We don't practice saying the same words in the same order.
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Quite right.
But we have to learn to speak in the first place. We have to learn to use our voices to make words, in order to be able to say what we want. We just did it so long ago we've forgotten how we did it.
It's the same with "unrehearsed improvisation". It can only happen when the technical skill and the vocabulary have already been internalized. So it feels completely intuitive, but only because it's been learned so long ago.
This is the bind that beginners often face. The "myth" is created by improvisers who claim to be just "playing what they feel", as if it's somehow magic, as if anyone can do it, just like that. You have to get a lot of music into your head (and fingers) first, before it can come out.