Hi Frederico,
I listened to your impro on Youtube. Your teacher gave you a nice and very popular tune to study. Your impro sounds a little bit "timid" - but this is normal as you seem to be in an early stage of learning to play guitar. Obviously you are trying to develop your skills to play melodies & solos with Jlab in the backgroung. This is an excellent approach as Jlab has a broad variety of styles and preset chord sheets (.sng + .mix) and a broad library of songs (more than 2000).
Since I practice with Jlab (one year ago) I could improve my impros :
1) because the Jlab-sound is (at least for me) very stimulating, more than Band in a Box (which I use also as well as Chordpulse. )
2) Jlab is very simple compared to the enormous BIAB which, over the years, needs more and more time to start on your pc. The menu is overloaded.
3) Jlab is simple and... free. I hope you'll contribute in making the Italian translation. Yes, translation takes time. I did it in German (my mother tong) But after finishing it's very gratifying to see the program working in your mother tong !
4) Jerome is very reactive : he added some features I asked him to integrate. The most important one for my needs is the tab with the
Memo Window where you can store a lot of things related (or not...) to your song - like how to start your impro, or the lyrics of the song.
In the corner down right of the memo window you can
insert LINKS to any file which is on or out (URL's) your pc (mp3, jpg, mp4, doc, pdf, URL's).
E.g. if you have the score of the song in pdf on your pc, you can create a link to it and pop up the document which you resize in order to position it side by side with your Jlab playback. Very efficient when learning a tune.
I personally
create a folder for each new tune I'm studying and I put everything which relates to this tune, like scores, chord sheets, videos/audios from anywhere - mainly Youtube. So every time I start to continue to study the tune I have everything "on hand" to process and I do not loose time or confuse myself in searching in and around my PC...
Each time when I learn a new song it's important for me to take some notes in the Jlab-Memo window about the fingering (melody or chords) on the guitar neck - position of left hand, first notes etc... in order not to re-invent the wheel each time I start the tune. This helps me to consolidate the memorisation.
Coming back to your impro: you use very often a half tone approach to an essential note of the chord = half tone below/tone/ half tone above etc... after a while this sounds "flat" and does not sound very "jazzy". I personally use the approach of
Charly Christian a famous jazz guitarist end of the 30/40 ties: He played his impros mainly based on triads built on the diagrams of his chords on the neck... this is not only a good way to build an impro in line with the tune but helps also to memorize it easyly.
VoilĂ my young friend. I hope that these lines will encourage you to combine Jjazzlab with your guitar !
Hans
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