Sample Impro-Visor Solos

Listed here are a few sample solos composed with the aid of Impro-Visor. Most are written by humans, but some contain trading with Impro-Visor or entire choruses composed by Impro-Visor without human intervention. Each has a manuscript composed of Impro-Visor screen shots and a MIDI file that will play when you open the page.  (To silence playback, hit the pause button at the bottom.) Impro-Visor would track the position within the leadsheet as the solos are being played, but we don't have this kind of animation on the web.

 

The leadsheet files for most solos can be found in the leadsheets directory of the latest release.

 

·        A Foggy Day 

·        Agua de Beber 

·        All God's Chillun Got Rhythm 

·        All The Things You Are 

·        Along Came Betty

·        A Night In Tunisia

·        Beatrice 

·        Because I Love You 

·        Blues For Alice

·        Detour Ahead

·        Giant Steps

·        Groovin' High

·        Little Sunflower

·        The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

·        This Is For Albert

·        12-Bar Blues in F (66 consecutive choruses improvised in real-time by Impro-Visor, without human intervention)

Sample Impro-Visor Transcriptions

 

·        Anthropology (Charlie Parker)

·        Laird Baird (Charlie Parker)

·        Now's The Time (Clifford Brown)

·        Now's The Time (Charlie Parker)

·        Picadilly Lilly (Dave Liebman)

·        Yardbird Suite (Charlie Parker)

Original Compositions Expressed Using Impro-Visor

·        Blues For Gary

·        When Sonny Plays the Blues

·        You Must Remember Diz'

Sample Impro-Visor Exercises

Here are a few exercises constructed using Impro-Visor.

·        Altered Dominant Cells

·        Major 2-5-1 Step-Down Exercise

·        Minor 2-5-1 Step-Down Exercise

·        Cycle of Fifths Exercises

Sample Bass Lines Constructed Using Impro-Visor

Here are a few bass lines constructed using Impro-Visor.

·        All The Things You Are

·        How Deep Is The Ocean?

 

Most of the printed solos have Impro-Visor's note coloration feature turned on. This is an instructional option in Impro-Visor, which differentiates notes, in this case as follows:

Black: Chord tones

Green: Color tones (consonant tones in chord extensions)

Blue: Approach tones to chord or color tones

Red: All others

These are designed to help someone writing a solo discern how well a note will sound over a given chord.