Apply Clark Terry's 3 Steps to learning improvisation for your Agile journey

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

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This is where everything begins.

Imitation: Listening. Learning lines by ear. Transcribing solos. Absorbing a player’s feel, articulation, and time.

ASSIMILATION

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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

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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 own 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 

organizations 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 it can play a major role in your transformation journey.Learn more from industry experts, imitate the framework. Some of the major advantages with this approach is to understand the organization pulse on this transformation journey, bottlenecks, whole organization talks in the same languages.LArge frameworks like SAfe will help you to apply lean agile thinking across the organization and align that towards your organization strategy. 

Assimilation

At this stage, the organization has enough learnings from the imitation stage. Basic things are working and organizations start thinking about underlying principles & theory behind 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. Organizations stop imitating and start thinking about innovating a new way of working, creating own frameworks with underlying practices and principles

Ref: .jazzadvice.com ,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Terry