Apply Clark Terry’s 3 Steps to learning improvisation for your Agile journey
Clark Virgil Terry was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee. Clark Terry has introduced 3 steps to learning improvisation. Imitation, Assimilation, Innovation.
IMITATION
Image src ©tenacollyer.com This is where everything begins.Imitation: Listening. Learning lines by ear. Transcribing solos. Absorbing a player’s feel, articulation, and time.
ASSIMILATION
Assimilation means ingraining these stylistic nuances, harmonic devices, and lines that you’ve transcribed into your musical conception. Not just mentally understanding them on the surface level, but truly connecting them to your ear and body. This is where the hours of dedication and work come in.
INNOVATION
Creating a fresh and personal approach to music. Many young musicians want to skip to this step as soon as they start learning how to improve. They want to have their harmonic concept and a unique sound on their instrument right from the get-go. Without a model or in-depth conception of harmony and melody though, it will be much more difficult to create a truly unique approach.
How to apply this in your agile journey
Imitation Go Agile organisations decided to go agile. Where to start??
Start with frameworks. Kanban, SAFe, Scrum will play a major role in this stage. Follow some of the best practices and closely observe the challenges and benefits. All these frameworks are proven frameworks and they can play a major role in your transformation journey. Learn more from industry experts, imitate the framework. Some of the major advantages of this approach are to understand the organisation pulse on this transformation journey, bottlenecks, whole organisation talks in the same languages. Big frameworks like SAFe will help you to apply lean-agile thinking across the organisation and align that towards your organisation strategy.
Assimilation
At this stage, the organisation has enough learnings from the imitation stage. Basic things are working and organisations start thinking about underlying principles & theory behind the initiation stage. Also starts fixing the challenges from the imitation stage by mixing multiple learnings.
Innovation
At this stage, we have enough learnings and understandings. Organisations stop imitating and start thinking about innovating a new way of working, creating their own frameworks with underlying practices and principles
Are you ready to create your agile symphony?
“Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts. “
Clark Terry
Ref: .jazzadvice.com ,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Terry