Description
Instructional DVD for Fish Are Jumping. On this video, Robert Dick plays and teaches Fish Are Jumping. He explains the blues scale and the 12 bar blues structure, and demonstrates how they work together. He teaches the techniques found in this piece — slides, bends, multiphonics — and delves into the rhythmic feel and phrasing. Then, taking the music chorus by chorus, Robert reveals the musical essence and how to learn it, step by step, including how to create and develop the short improvised cadenza. Fish Are Jumping is the perfect intro to the blues for the flutist yearning to play the music that surrounds us in our culture. Robert is a thorough, caring and very funny teacher. 82 minutes
