Hear Jazz Solos And Improvisations

Prepared to enhance your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? Much more merely, if you're playing a tune that's in swing time, then you're currently playing to a triplet feeling (you're envisioning that each beat is separated into 3 eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the third triplet note (so you're not even playing 2 evenly spaced 8th notes to start with).

So as opposed to playing two 8 notes straight, which would last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can separate that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides length. The initial improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which indicates to make up melodies making use of the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I usually play all-natural 9ths over a lot of chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal texture' seems finest if you play your right-hand man noisally, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - to make sure that the listener listens to the melody note on the top.

Just come before any chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, walk up in half-steps (with the entire chromatic range), and Bookmarks make note of all the notes that aren't in your current range. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with single melody note (C) played to interesting rhythm.

Now you could play this 5 note scale (the incorrect notes) over the very same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you just play the very same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale over - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).

KEEP IN MIND: You likewise get a good series of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a brief scale in your solo. Nonetheless, to stop your having fun from appearing predictable (and burst out of eighth note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms every now and then.