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# Bay Area Musical Improv **Blog**

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## Musical Improvisers

- BAMI
- 23 Jan 2025

## Indie Team Guide

We're excited to announce a new guide to creating, running and promoting an indie team in the Bay Area. Find out about performance opportunities and free and low-cost rehearsal spaces, and get guidance on how to build and manage your indie team.

[READ ARTICLE](https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/bay-area-musical-improv-blog/indie-team-guide)

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- BAMI
- 24 July 2024

## How to Earn a Song

One of the most challenging things about musical improv is finding the song we want to sing within the scene we’re improvising. How do we make sure that we’re making choices that will lead to a fulfilling song and not a song that feels like *work*?

In musical improv, we call this “earning” the song.

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- BAMI
- 7 Feb 2024

## Musical Improv Exercises You Can Do at Home

Improve your musical improv skills in between classes and rehearsals with exercises to keep your rhyming and harmonizing skills fresh, plus resources to improvise songs from the comfort of your own home.

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- BAMI
- 6 Feb 2024

## How to Form a Musical Improv Indie Team

A beginner’s guide to starting an independent musical improv team. How to find teammates, find a coach, find a Musical Director, and find rehearsal space.

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Bay Area Musical Improv is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We are not officially affiliated with any theater. Our mission is simple: To help grow the musical improv community in the San Francisco Bay area. Our goal is a thriving, inclusive musical improv community made up of people of all backgrounds, experiences and vocal abilities.

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### Blog

- [Welcome & About Us](https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/bay-area-musical-improv-blog/welcome-to-bay-area-musical-improv)
- [Exercises at Home](https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/bay-area-musical-improv-blog/musical-improv-exercises-you-can-do-at-home)
- [Starting an Indie Team](https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/bay-area-musical-improv-blog/how-to-form-a-musical-improv-indie-team)

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