What’s happened is im working my way through music grade level books, and the current level i’ve started, i need to put on hold, as the previous level, i seriously need to go back over and spend more time practicing a lot of sheet tunes at that level, probably a couple of months.
Which is great, as that gives me a chance to spend a lot more time improvising to backing tracks and just relaxing enjoying the improvisation sound. Dont get me wrong, there’s a lot of work in improvising as its a completely different art form.
Also, i’ve got bored with playing other peoples tunes, and want to just go off and experiment playing my own improvisation stuff with backing tracks, i want to lose myself in backing tracks.
My instructer is a fantastic improviser, and taught me improvising stuff for 6 months last year, but what happened then was the sheet music skills suffered terribly. The problem with sheet music playing, is you can get rusty very quickly, so its an art that you have put the time in, even if its just to keep at the same level.
In fact i’ll discuss it with my teacher on monday.
