Jazz Piano Improvisation

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Ready to enhance your jazz piano technique exercises improvisation abilities for the piano? Much more merely, if you're playing a song that's in swing time, after that you're currently playing to a triplet feeling (you're envisioning that each beat is divided right into three eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is postponed and used the 3rd triplet note (so you're not even playing two evenly spaced eighth notes to begin with).

So instead of playing 2 eight notes straight, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can separate that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same length. The first improvisation technique is 'chord tone soloing', which implies to make up melodies using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I normally play natural 9ths over many chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal texture' appears finest if you play your right hand loudly, and left hand (chord) a bit more quiet - so that the audience hears the melody note ahead.

Simply 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 colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your existing range. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to interesting rhythm.

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

NOTE: You also obtain a good collection of actions to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a brief scale in your solo. However, to stop your playing from seeming predictable (and break out of eighth note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms from time to time.