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Prepared to enhance your jazz piano technique exercises improvisation skills for the piano? Much more just, if you're playing a track that's in swing time, then you're already playing to a triplet feel (you're visualizing that each beat is separated into 3 eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the 3rd triplet note (so you're not also playing two equally spaced 8th notes to start with).
So rather than playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note right into three '8th note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same size. The first improvisation technique is 'chord tone soloing', which implies to make up tunes utilizing the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
I typically play natural 9ths above many chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal structure' appears finest if you play your right hand loudly, and left hand (chord) a bit quieter - to make sure that the listener listens to the melody note on the top.
Merely precede any type of chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, walk up in half-steps (with the whole colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your present range. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to interesting rhythm.
Jazz artists will play from a variety of pre-written ariose shapes, which are put prior to a 'target note' (typically a chord tone, 1 3 5 7). First let's develop the 'appropriate notes' - usually I would certainly play from the dorian range over minor 7 chord.
A lot of jazz piano solos feature an area where the melody stops, and the pianist plays a collection of chord expressions, to an intriguing rhythm. These include chord tone soloing, technique patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal structures', 'playing out' and much more.