21 Jun
2005
21 Jun
'05
2:13 p.m.
Burkhard Woelfel schrieb:
On Sunday 19 June 2005 23:56, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
Did you ever try http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/index.html
Its the free MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment) prog. I use it to
practice improvisation. I like it. It`s quite easy. You just edit a text
file with your chords, p.e.:
1 G
2 D
3 Em
4 C
etc.
it reads even more sophisticated Jazzchords, like p.e. Bb-5#9, Gdim C+
chords.
The program is Perl as I understand. It produces a midi-file out of your
text file.
This you can load into Rosegarden or noteedit -- or just play with "pmidi"
There comes a Tutorial for Quickstart. Plus a Reference Manual.
It doesn`t take more than 30 min to get it running.
Here is an example file
// =============== Start of File - Let it Be ===============
// ============== Author of this File: Ralf Koenig =========
Tempo 130
Groove Metronome2-4
z * 2
Groove 8Beat
Repeat
1 G
2 D
3 Em
4 C
5 G
6 D
7 C / Bm Am7
8 G
9 G
10 D
11 Em
12 C
13 G
14 D
15 C / Bm Am7
16 G
Repeat
17 Em
18 D
19 C
20 G
21 G
22 D
23 C / Bm Am7
24 G
RepeatEnd
RepeatEnd 3
// End of File
Cheers
Hartmut
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:27:26PM -0100, Gilles
Degottex wrote:
>I'm looking for softwares to practice
improvisation, chords grids,
>beat/mesures following, etc.
I praqctice improvising by recording myself
comping. I usually do this
in audacity. Then I select sections I may want to work on. If I want a
slower version I just record it slower. This sounds like a pain in the
butt but it just gives me more practice at playing the chord changes. I
believe that this will ultimately help me to play around the changes
because I will know them better from playing them more often. Then I can
overdub my improvisation to later pick out things that I did that I
thought were cool. So many time I improvise but can't remeber what I
played after I finished.
Singing your lines unisono can help you memorize stuff a little
better. I'm
sure it will also add to your playing itself.
I like your approach. Did you ever try it the other way round?