How To Exercise Jazz Piano Improvisation

Prepared to boost your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? Extra just, if you're playing a tune that remains in swing time, then you're currently playing to a triplet feeling (you're thinking of that each beat is divided right into three eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the 3rd triplet note (so you're not also playing 2 evenly spaced eighth notes to begin with).

So instead of playing two 8 notes in a row, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same length. The very first improvisation technique is 'chord tone soloing', which means to make up melodies utilizing the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I generally play all-natural 9ths over a lot of chords - including all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal texture' seems ideal if you play your right-hand man loudly, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - so that the audience hears the melody note on top.

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

Jazz musicians will play from a wide range of pre-written melodic forms, which are placed prior to a 'target note' (usually a chord tone, 1 3 5 7). First let's develop the 'appropriate notes' - typically I would certainly play from the dorian range over small 7 chord.

The majority of jazz piano improvisation exercises piano solos feature an area where the melody quits, and the pianist plays a collection of chord enunciations, to an intriguing rhythm. These consist of chord tone soloing, approach patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal appearances', 'playing out' and a lot more.