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121.6Improvisation is a search process
When improvising, your musical system rapidly tries:
- intervals
- rhythms
- harmonic paths
- register choices
- voicings
- textures
- phrase lengths
Most are ordinary.
A few are:
interesting.
Very few may be:
structurally important.
Your job is to notice those.