Pick a jazz or blues chart, set your own rules, and solo. The lab listens, writes your notes out on the staff, and grades them against the rules you chose. Wired headphones recommended — Bluetooth delays throw the timing off.
Improvising is easier to learn when you can see what you played. Pick a chart (a one-chord groove, a 12-bar blues, a minor blues or a jazz blues) in any key and at any tempo, and take a chorus on your own instrument. The lab listens through the microphone and writes your notes out on the staff.
You decide what counts as a good note: the notes of a scale such as the major or minor pentatonic or the blues scale, the blue note, or “anything goes” if you just want your solo written out. Each note comes back green if it fits your rules, blue if it’s spice, and red if it’s outside them. Save a setup as a recipe and you can open the same practice any day.
Learning to Fly: the improvising course Jam Track: a backing track for any chart Play It Back: hear a phrase, play it back Phrasebook: write down the licks you like Blues theory: the blues scale and the 12-bar