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To Teach Is to Serve Improvisation and Wellness Thomas Mastroianni Wellness • • • • • • Whole Body Wellness Well Attitudes and Habits Stress and Wellness Wellness and Improvisation Psychological Wellness Teaching Improvisation Whole Body Wellness • Exercise • Diet • Pacing Well Attitudes and Habits • Play as though you have composed the piece. • Improvise the ideas using the composer’s suggestions. • Form a spontaneity attitude and habit. Wellness and Pacing • Take regular breaks • Insert easy music making into your routine • Improvise Stress and Wellness • Balance adrenalin • Befriend improvisation Psychological Wellness The Brain Brain Areas Conscious Understanding Sylvian fissure Frontal lobe Parietal lobe Temporal lobe Occipital lobe Cerebrum Signal relay and screening • Cerebellum stored patterned responses, screening • Brain stem synaptic areas for signal relay and screening Reflex Activity • Neural Wiring - Genetic (Visual, Auditory, Motor) • Subcortical Reflex Activity / Symbols • Survival Reflexes and Anxiety / Excess • Indirect Control of Reflexes / Symbols Improvisation promotes trust in the reflex Understanding/Execution/Wellness Understanding aids ideation Understanding guides choice of responses in improvisation Imagry -- muscles respond to imagry Feldenkreis exercise. Elimination of excess aids wellness Improvisation • Conversation vs. Speech Making • Ideas vs. Symbols • Semantic Memory vs. Episodic Memory Dealing with Problems • • • • Diagnosis Analysis Remedy suggestion Including improvisation in the treatment PEDAGOGIC PSYCHOLOGY How do you teach technique? How do you teach improvisation? Confidence vs criticism Noble effort vs calm success Musical expression as improvisation and confidence Improvisation Routine Scales, arpeggios, patterns, chords Alternate ways to play scales, chords, etc. Modeling Dance types Texture types Feelings Nature images Time signature Bar structure Improvisation Routine • Bar Structure and chord pattern I/V/I/V/ I • I / VI / II / V / I • Add melody • Change accompaniment • Change Key
