
that is not how we swing we think in 's with a slight accent on the first of the group of 4. listen to a classical player who can not swing but is trying to learn and 9 imes out of 0 it is because the are thinking in two's and they sound like they are on a see saw. to improvise in jazz is to think in groups of 4. i am just finding it to be a damn handy new tool orĪ great new color in my palette. of course there are many sytems of tonal organization out there and there is no need to ever do this one to become a good improviser. i think it is a good system and a fun one to practice and play with. listened to players who have studied with him. personally i have jb's book, read it, talked to players who have studied with him. decide whether you are going to use 1235 or 1345 on minor chords. improvise, using it seemlessly, melodically. but if you do create your own system at some point if you are going to be able to use it. i have read the book and been working with it for a few monthe now and i would say he has done a pretty bang up job) and i have heard players blowing on gigs that have studied with him. you may even be able to create a better one ( although i doubt it. sure you can create a different systemīased on 4 note groupings. bergonzi has forwarded a clear and concise way of organizing melodic concepts in his book "melodic stuctures". then knowing chord scales and to what chords to apply what scales became the difference between getting a gig and not. certainly this idea of organizing concpts took off with the birth of modal music when knowing modes became critical. for some of the earliest players that might have simply meant figuring out on what tunes some of the things you had played on other tunes that sounded good might work as well.
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in improvisation since the begining of jazz the name of the game has been trying to figure out how to organize your melodic concepts. Well it is a personal system that he has offered as a good system to everyone to save us from having to do the work our selves of organizing 4 note groups from scratch.
