Improvisation Assignment #31

                “Chill Out” is a very slow and beautiful “straight 8^th note” ballad.   It offers another opportunity to explore soloing options for a minor scale.  Another “fun” option might be to see if your students (on their own) can come up with the correct notes of a C# minor “blues” scale, which also will work with this song.  In addition, it offers the students an opportunity to perform in a key that is rarely used for “wind instruments”.  There are no “count offs” in the resource MP3.  The entire song is a single eight bar, four chord progression phrase.  After the 12 bar introduction, the first soloist should begin and then the solos that follow should alternate every eight measures.  I am very sure you will enjoy hearing solos that your young “improvisationalists” come up with.  So, sit back, relax, enjoy, and most importantly, “Chill Out”.