Seeking advice

[chopper84a]

Hi guys (and girls!)

I'm a 28 year old male. I started practising improvisation just over a year to go. With no one to advise me, and no real clue as to how to go about learning to improvise, I practised from the exercises in classical harmony books, traditional four part harmony. Now I can do these exercises reasonably fluently, so I can use them as a basis for some improv. This is fine I think, as I like the sound of this style of music. My question: how long should I spend doing exercises like this, and how long just trying to improvise, I suppose what you might call free improvisation? There is a distinction between playing and practicing I think. Atm I suppose I spend about 50% of my time doing exercises, 25% on scales and arpeggios etc and 25% just freely improvising as best as I can. Is this any good?

Hope my post made sense, found it a bit hard to explain. Any advice greatly appreciated.

[dcstudio]

simple improv -- is this what you want to be able to do?

[Derek]

Can you post a sample of your playing.

To answer your question there is no one size fits all approach. Requesting
Feedback from experienced improvisers (and mindfully taking said feedback seriously) will help you gradually find
An approach that works for you and even learn what it is you ultimately
Wish to do with your music.