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The normal reaction to learning to improvise music is that it is fun and easy. The Music Improvisation Seminar is offered for teens and adults, and it is for newcomers who want to learn how to improvise as well as for accomplished improvisers who want to progress beyond their current stage. By taking this seminar, you will learn how improvisation is already a natural, everyday experience that can be applied to music. You will find an instant connection with your personal musicality, an unlimited channel for self-expression and creativity, freedom from standards and restrictions, a means to transform emotional states, and a source of ideas for composing. The seminar is especially suitable for musicians who feel that improvisation is an inaccessible mystery or who feel that their creativity is not being fulfilled only by playing written music. Improvising music also increases confidence and resourcefulness in other areas of living, and it encourages teamwork. Jeffrey Chappell's instruction works with all instruments and all styles of music. This seminar will take place in the Oak Meeting Room of the San Mateo Main Branch Library.