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9235 / 18210 · Workshop 75 — Intervallic Improvisation: Fourths, Fifths, Wide Leaps, Octave Displacement, and Making Modern Lines Sing Without Losing the Harmony← prev⊞ allnext →

75.102Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”

Here intervallic playing can be humorous.

Play melody normally.

Then a response leaps:

too high.

Next answer:

unexpectedly low.

Then:

a fourth-based horn-like figure.

Then return to simple blues language.

The wide register becomes character, not abstract jazz sophistication.