Burkhard Woelfel schrieb: > On Sunday 19 June 2005 23:56, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > >On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:27:26PM -0100, Gilles Degottex wrote: > > >>I'm looking for softwares to practice improvisation, chords grids, > >>beat/mesures following, etc. > > >I praqctice improvising by recording myself comping. I usually do this > >in audacity. Then I select sections I may want to work on. If I want a > >slower version I just record it slower. This sounds like a pain in the > >butt but it just gives me more practice at playing the chord changes. I > >believe that this will ultimately help me to play around the changes > >because I will know them better from playing them more often. Then I can > >overdub my improvisation to later pick out things that I did that I > >thought were cool. So many time I improvise but can't remeber what I > >played after I finished. > > > Singing your lines unisono can help you memorize stuff a little > better. I'm > sure it will also add to your playing itself. > > I like your approach. Did you ever try it the other way round? Did you ever try http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/index.html Its the free MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment) prog. I use it to practice improvisation. I like it. It`s quite easy. You just edit a text file with your chords, p.e.: 1 G 2 D 3 Em 4 C etc. it reads even more sophisticated Jazzchords, like p.e. Bb-5#9, Gdim C+ chords. The program is Perl as I understand. It produces a midi-file out of your text file. This you can load into Rosegarden or noteedit -- or just play with "pmidi" There comes a Tutorial for Quickstart. Plus a Reference Manual. It doesn`t take more than 30 min to get it running. Here is an example file // =============== Start of File - Let it Be =============== // ============== Author of this File: Ralf Koenig ========= Tempo 130 Groove Metronome2-4 z * 2 Groove 8Beat Repeat 1 G 2 D 3 Em 4 C 5 G 6 D 7 C / Bm Am7 8 G 9 G 10 D 11 Em 12 C 13 G 14 D 15 C / Bm Am7 16 G Repeat 17 Em 18 D 19 C 20 G 21 G 22 D 23 C / Bm Am7 24 G RepeatEnd RepeatEnd 3 // End of File Cheers Hartmut