The final core performance skill to explore is the ability to improvise. This is a skill that is very natural to some musicians (and even non-musicians) and very mysterious and perhaps even scary to others. And yet, it's the oldest of all the skills, the earliest way to create music. It's also essential for every genre other than classical (and there was a time it was expected there as well). Finally, it's the most pure way of learning how music works by disassembling it and putting it back together based on your own experience and understanding. As with the previous episodes in this series, there are 10 exercises to get you started with improvisation.

This is the 5th of a 5-part series. If you missed it, check out the previous episodes in this series:

The Four Core Skills Part 1: An Overview of the Skills

The Four Core Skills Part 2: Sight Reading

The Four Core Skills Part 3: Playing by Ear

The Four Core Skills Part 4: Transposing

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