The old musician joke – How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice a lot. But practice what? If one wants to improvise – to play “by ear” – one needs to know the basic musical language and learn one’s “scales and arpeggios.”
Watch, and listen, to how to begin to improvise on the simplest of Blues harmonies. Learn basic musical language and apply it to the form and harmonic structure of the Blues.
This lecture must have a piano in the room – either electric or acoustic.
Lots of fun for instrumentalists and singers alike. And all can learn to hear more as listeners at concerts where jazz is being performed.