ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the core content and subject matter in the instrumental lessons will be described. This content mainly consists of tunes from the jazz standard repertoire and learning to improvise is structured around what is often called a chord-scale approach. In Improbasen, the content is conveyed through what I will call an experiential and oral approach. This means that all students from their very beginnings on learning the instrument learn Roman numeral analysis of chord progressions and their relations to chord scales. Simultaneously, they learn to play this material on the instrument and improvise with it immediately, in context. Hence, the establishment of inner aural representations integrated with embodied performance of the material is always at the core.
