David Reed

David Reed is a multi-instrumentalist professional musician based in New York City. A musician for more than 30 years, his unique perspective on music and creativity is drawn from his experiences playing and teaching music in New York, Los Angeles, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. David’s experiences in these diverse musical cultures convinced him that all human beings have the natural ability to imagine and create beautiful music. He says that most improvisation courses are only a distraction from your real talent because they teach you to improvise using licks and formulas instead of giving you a true understanding of harmony and the ability to create your OWN music. The title of the book, Improvise for Real, is inspired by David’s belief that improvising with rules and formulas isn’t even really improvising at all. True musical improvisation means playing directly from your musical imagination, expressing your own musical ideas exactly as you hear them in your mind. Improvise for Real will take you into this fascinating world of sounds, teaching you how to connect with your own musical creativity so that you can enjoy improvising and composing your own music. With backing tracks, video courses and other practice tools at ImproviseForReal.com, David provides a complete method for musicians wanting to learn the beautiful art of musical improvisation. The method is open to all instruments and ability levels. The exercises are easy to understand and fun to practice. Now being used by both students and teachers in more than 20 countries, Improvise for Real is considered by many to be the definitive system for learning to improvise.