Getting serious about Improvisation....

[magnusdeus123]

Conducive to my getting into listening Jazz music , I also am getting into the idea of improvisation .

A lot of things I'ev been doing uptill now have made sense in the past few days when I've been trying this out . Learning all modes for every scale in each key , Arpeggios in all intervals , the ear transcribing , everything .

What I do now is basically , I sing out a tune , not that complex , around less-than-a-dozen-notes lick , and then slowly I try to play it on the bass , trying to get each note right , according to what I feel would be the right note as it sounds in my head and translate to the fretboard . I'm being able to hit ascending minor 3rds , 4rths, and 5ths right on , along with being able to identify if the interval is a minor or major 2nd across and so on , and I think this ability of mine will improve with practice and more improvisation .

I'm also getting on a steady path of using Solfege and trying to get my ear training skills upto notch , but there it's really not that interesting , and kinda a drag , but I'm getting through it .

All in all , is there any other advice you guys could give out , which would be helpfull in the situation ?? I'm not completely off the track I think , and continuing like this , keeping a bit of time aside everyday for a bit of improvised stuff is good I guess . I also wanna add the aspect of improvising from a record , which basically involves me developing melodies while a record is playing and then pausing hte record and playing the melodies in the same slow and sure pattern untill I can get the notes from my mind under my fingers .

Final Goal is obviously to be able to improvise with no delay between my mind to finger transition .

So any advice you guys would like to throw my way ?