Congratulations @Julie McKenna on your debut as a public improviser!! Was this your first time improvising out there in the real world?! Great job! Looking and sounding like a rock star up there!!

Hello everyone! I`m very glad I found this group!!! I have been tortured with classical piano lessons during my teen years, hated them, played the recorder in a school orchestra, which I loved, stopped playing anything for around 35 years, started playing guitar to get away from classical music and returned to wind instruments 3 years ago by picking up the flute. I usually play rock / pop / folk, but discovered Händel a couple of weeks ago, so I am playing different styles. But I am rather addicted to sheets, I`m afraid. As I sometimes play with a colleague (piano / bass / guitar) and we would like to add improvisations a bit more I was looking for a way to approach that. And I think I have found the right place! I don`t have a lot of time so I might be very quiet from time to time. But I will try for sure. In my first meeting with Vic he asked me to create the sound of a turtle and a snail. My next job was a faster animal. So here - as a first attempt to post - is my 30 sec rabbit... (is this the correct category?) By the way - I am from Germany - so please excuse my mistakes!

Have you tried the "Build It" Improv prompt yet?

Here is an improv song I played for my neighbor’s horse. Just for the fun of it:) I played for him before and he ran away. So I decided to play low notes to keep it calm. You can hear my footsteps as I walked close to him and walked back. This is some of the fun we can have with improv. Haha 😂

Always start simple!