Improvisation class with Simon van der Walt

Hi there,
another improvisation lesson with the excellent musician and teacher Simon van der Walt went well, by the way.
Althought, I had never done any improvisation before, I found it quite entertaining. We have done a lot of improvisation excercise today. For instance, Simon performed two long bars riffs on his trumpet and those riffs had to be correctly repeated by playing our own instruments.The problem was that you needed to be absolutely focused what teacher performed,so that it means you have to be rhytmicaly correct to make your teacher satisfied. Moreover, everyone had to compose two bars-long melody in C major blues scale and than performed it along with the music which was playing in the backround.
According to Simon,this kind of excercise can have significant impact on our musician skills such as improving our frazing and rhytmic coordination.
Finally, we have got homework for next lesson which is next week. Simon asked from us to create any melody in C major blues scales with correct blues rhytmus and perform it in front of the class.