Here Is ANOTHER Graph, Maybe Like the One YOU'LL Make

Here is a plan that a group of musicians assembled. They put the lists of terms on pieces of cardboard, and fanned them out under their corresponding sections of the outlining sentence. Taking about ten minutes discussing the concept & some of the terms, the sections were then chosen by consensus, and pinned onto a bulletin board to create the inspirations that everyone could see who was playing. Noticed these musicians used different terms than are in lists here, but what was important is that everyone was satisfied with how the terms they chose created interesting interpretations.


This Many

Of Who

Acting As

Interacting With

How

Remember

Until

One

piano

Caller

vary speed, &

count of chords

minor mood

punctuate

4 times

Many

Congas

Keeper

clustered beats

softly

less often

end

Set of

traps

Developer

slow, dramatic

pauses

varied

unity of all

does click track

Two

voices

Supporter

Same- time

minor

Developer

contrast

One

guitar

Contraster

Harmonious

Timed Chords

mood-ily

mood that is going

continue

Two

voices

Contrast -Supporter

Mimic the Chords

of Contrast

Bla-tantly

to pause for a measure

Peak Starts

One

voice

Peaker

Chaos Mimic

wildly

Exaggerate

top of peak

All

all

Top of Peak

Group Drone

Chord

transi-tion to

to watch each other

each stops

One

piano

Returns

solo repeat Call

quietly

to slow

fade


If you and your musician friends would like to participate in shaping how to play with AGame, please take a moment and contact me. I will be glad to meet with any group to explain and give your group an experience about how this works in exchange for the price of my travel costs to wherever you are. If you have marketing or educational ideas of how to help groups of musicians of all skill levels improvise together, let me know what we might scheme on together.


If you would like other copies of this explanation to interest other performers or musicians, have them call or write and I will send them this booklet for a minimal charge. I can't count how many copies of this booklet I've handed out for free in hopes of getting my friends and friends of friends interested in this great idea. If you got this for free, please think about donating to help me keep going. Then give me ten dollars. ;o) Thank you for taking the time to learn about this new way to play together that came to me in a dream. Please experiment, and please get back to me me about your findings!



Yours in harmony, Franis Engel



There's a blank AGame for you to fill out here:


Arrange Game Plan


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Interacting

How

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