This is a text oracle that generates playing instructions for musical improvisation. They can help to overcome overused clichés when improvising alone or with other musicians. Those sometimes weird, but always mind-challenging sentences should be interpreted according to your own personal taste, mind and skill.
Originally, Karlheinz Essl's Playing Strategies have been implemented as a computer program for Apple Macintosh computers. Beside this, a platform-independent version for the World-Wide Web was written in JavaScript which can be accessed from here:
Click on the button above or on this link to get a new window where you can demand as many Playing Strategies as you like...
Click on the button above or on this link to get a new window which will automatically change the Playing Stratregies every few seconds...
NB: To view those pages your browser must support JavaScript.
Javascript programming by Karlheinz Essl (© 1998)
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Updated: 5 Aug 2023