To make something up on the spot.
Improvisation is common in jazz music, when a musician makes up a solo spontaneously, as opposed to playing a written solo.
Sometimes a group of musicians will completely improvise an entire song. This is done almost exclusively by jazz musicians.
All forms of art can be improvised. Art that is improvised may be called "free" or "freestyle", like "free poetry".
A popular form of improvisation is rapping, or flowing.
Improvisation is common in jazz music, when a musician makes up a solo spontaneously, as opposed to playing a written solo.
Sometimes a group of musicians will completely improvise an entire song. This is done almost exclusively by jazz musicians.
All forms of art can be improvised. Art that is improvised may be called "free" or "freestyle", like "free poetry".
A popular form of improvisation is rapping, or flowing.
Miles Davis was a master of improvisation.
by The Drafted's guitar player September 6, 2005
Get the improvisation mug.An ABC sitcom airing from 1991-1999 and one of the most cleverly written sitcoms of the decade. Comedian Tim Allen starred as Tim Taylor, a chauvinist, handyman husband and father of three mischeivous sons who hosted a Detroit cable tool show called Tool Time, and just could help himself to giving "more power" to machinery. Much of the show also focused on the of the rest of the Taylor family: Tim’s wife Jill is a feminist and aspiring psychologist, the loner and very astute neighbor Wilson Wilson always provides advice for Tim, and Tim’s sons are mischeivious but good kids. Tim is very masculine and chauvinist (he even gets disgusted at just the thought of going to the opera), a handyman, clumsy, loved to make jokes about Al’s flannel shirts and overweight mother, always rewiring gadgets, was always competing with his next door neighbor Doc Johnson for the neighborhood’s best Christmas lights, seeking advice from his other neighbor Wilson Wilson (Wilson Wilson is not a typo)
Spoofs from the show:
1. Tim’s frequent jokes about Al’s flannel shirst and overweight mom.
2. always seeking advice from his next door neighbor Wilson Wilson, only to screw it up
3. Wilson’s face is always hidden
4. always rewiring things to give it “more power”…only to have it explode
5. his wife Jill can’t cook
6. Tim has an obsession with Sears
7. always competes with Doc Johnson, a 80-year old retired proctologist, for the neighborhood’s best Christmas lights
8. Tim is so clumsy that he dropped a steel beam on his wife’s car, fell though a portapotty, glued his head to a table, had a hammer frozen to his tongue, fell through the roof on a project house, blew up a friend’s house and blew up the dishwasher
9. always building a hot rod in the garage
10. frequently grunts when exited or perplexed
11. Bob Villa is his biggest competition
12. Tim often hits his head on a basement pipe above the stairs
13. frequently made jokes about his mother-in-law “Nanna’s” weight but stopped when he saw how thin she had become
14. Always wants Tool Time to take a commercial break when he gets injured
15. Tim frequently gets sick eating Polish food from "Stan’s" Polish restaurant in Hamtramk
16. Tim is well-known at the emergency room, even to the point of having his own cup labeled “Tim”
17. Tim often wears sweatshirts from a Michigan college.
18. Tim's three sons' are always bullied by Vinny McGern
Spoofs from the show:
1. Tim’s frequent jokes about Al’s flannel shirst and overweight mom.
2. always seeking advice from his next door neighbor Wilson Wilson, only to screw it up
3. Wilson’s face is always hidden
4. always rewiring things to give it “more power”…only to have it explode
5. his wife Jill can’t cook
6. Tim has an obsession with Sears
7. always competes with Doc Johnson, a 80-year old retired proctologist, for the neighborhood’s best Christmas lights
8. Tim is so clumsy that he dropped a steel beam on his wife’s car, fell though a portapotty, glued his head to a table, had a hammer frozen to his tongue, fell through the roof on a project house, blew up a friend’s house and blew up the dishwasher
9. always building a hot rod in the garage
10. frequently grunts when exited or perplexed
11. Bob Villa is his biggest competition
12. Tim often hits his head on a basement pipe above the stairs
13. frequently made jokes about his mother-in-law “Nanna’s” weight but stopped when he saw how thin she had become
14. Always wants Tool Time to take a commercial break when he gets injured
15. Tim frequently gets sick eating Polish food from "Stan’s" Polish restaurant in Hamtramk
16. Tim is well-known at the emergency room, even to the point of having his own cup labeled “Tim”
17. Tim often wears sweatshirts from a Michigan college.
18. Tim's three sons' are always bullied by Vinny McGern
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younger brother: yo Amos, you big bully of a brother, give me your candy.
Amos: Sean, idiotagers have no manners these days. I am giving you two choices. now choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. one, either you eat your own cheese for talking to me like that, or two you improve your vocabulary. Got that? Now, go scratch yourself and come back to me when you have made up your mind.
Amos: Sean, idiotagers have no manners these days. I am giving you two choices. now choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. one, either you eat your own cheese for talking to me like that, or two you improve your vocabulary. Got that? Now, go scratch yourself and come back to me when you have made up your mind.
by Uncle Dimma February 20, 2013
Get the improve your vocabulary mug.verb - Pulling out unpracticed game during the final minutes before a bar or club closes, in a desperate attempt to avoid leaving alone.
Damon: "Man that girl I was with last night was fine!"
Bryan: "What, I saw you like 10 minutes before they closed, and you were by yourself. How did you pull that one off?"
Damon: "I had to Pimprovise, but I made it happen"
Bryan: "What, I saw you like 10 minutes before they closed, and you were by yourself. How did you pull that one off?"
Damon: "I had to Pimprovise, but I made it happen"
by Bryan Knapp May 25, 2011
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Victims of improusal typically include goal diggers and people that are attracted to other motivated individuals.
Victims of improusal typically include goal diggers and people that are attracted to other motivated individuals.
by moosechop February 14, 2020
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I never know how I'm going to explain how something that happened to me but when I start speaking the improvising starts to kick in.
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