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Originally Posted by blm22
...I don't know how I would add more movement?
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It's kind of hard to explain, and it's an understanding that comes with experience. Not necessarily
movement, but
motion...forward energy. Changes in dynamics, rhythms, voicing, density, tessitura (register/range), texture, orchestration, colour, what-have-you can all contribute to some sort of positive motion.
In the case of 'Blue Sky Jazz' you have a triadic voicing which doesn't seem to change much; there's also not a lot of contrapuntal motion - it's largely isorhythmic, voiced in thirds through the whole section. Break it up a bit. Expand the harmonic language; texturally - voice across sections more. It's a process of experimentation...
Jazz-wise, who do you listen to ?