Exactly How To Exercise Jazz Piano Improvisation

All set to enhance your jazz piano improvisation exercises improvisation skills for the piano? Much more merely, if you're playing a track that remains in swing time, then you're currently playing to a triplet feeling (you're thinking of that each beat is divided into 3 8th note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the third triplet note (so you're not also playing two equally spaced 8th notes to begin with).

So instead of playing 2 eight notes in a row, which would last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note into three '8th note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides size. The first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which implies to compose tunes using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I typically play all-natural 9ths over a lot of chords - including all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal appearance' seems ideal if you play your right-hand man noisally, and left hand (chord) a bit quieter - to make sure that the audience listens to the melody note on the top.

Just come before any type of chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (through the entire colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your present range. Cm7 expression (7 9 3 5) with single melody note (C) played to fascinating rhythm.

Currently you can play this 5 note scale (the wrong notes) over the very same C small 7 chord in your left hand. With this method you just play the very same notes that you're currently playing in the chord. Chord range over - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).

NOTE: You likewise obtain a great collection of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you wish to play a brief range in your solo. However, to stop your playing from seeming foreseeable (and burst out of eighth note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms every now and then.