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Musical Improv Podcasts

We made over 35 podcasts from the time we started this journey until a few years ago when we became too busy to keep them going.  Plans are to restart but in the meantime we have left a few of our favourites on this page for you to listen to.  If you are desperate to hear the others then get in touch and I might be persuaded.
Over the years, our teaching style has evolved away from the more instructional aspects of rhyming, line length and structure and more towards encouraging being in the moment, supporting, listening and genuinely improvising.  Heather often says "There's a difference between writing and song in your head and then singing it, and just opening your mouth and singing".  That said, there is always great benefit in rehearsing and practising skills that you can draw on in performance so while we feel that some of the more instructional podcasts do not reflect our current style of teaching, they can still be useful as reference and rehearsal material.  Enjoy! ​

Instructional

How to start putting together the basic blocks of Musical Improv
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  • Bridges - Our first podcast - why bridges? why not?
  • Verses - What is a verse?
  • Choruses - How do you improvise a chorus?
  • Jazz - it's about Jazz
  • World - The vast subject of 'World Music'
  • Rock & Pop - Yup
  • Musicals - Love em or hate em.
  • Rapping - Lifting the lid on rapping
  • Sing without singing - Yes it can be done
  • Ignoring your Musician. - Don't do this

Experimental

A whole bunch of creative ideas and experiments from the vault.
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  • Singong 1 - ​What happens if you tell a bunch of people to sing together without words?
  • Singong 2 - And then do it in the dark?
  • Singong 3 - Really? Again?
  • Jam Tarts - Our first foray into improvising with a choir
  • Early Music - And then with an early music choir
  • The Happening - It happened.
  • Improv for Musicians - Finally the musicians get a go
  • Improv for Musicians 2 - So good we did it again.

Interviews

We sought out the most interesting and experienced people we could find.
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  • Comedy Store Players 
  • Showstopper
  • Impropera 
  • Zenprov​
  • Improbable - Phelim McDermott and Lee Simpson

Musical Improv Games Links

Musical Improv Games - Warm ups
Musical Improv Backing Tracks
List of Musical Improv Games
Singing Games

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