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Ready to enhance your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? Much more simply, if you're playing a track that's in swing time, then you're already playing to a triplet feeling (you're visualizing that each beat is separated into three 8th note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the third triplet note (so you're not also playing two evenly spaced 8th notes to start with).

So instead of playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can separate that quarter note right into 3 '8th note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same length. The initial improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which means to compose tunes utilizing the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

For this to work, it needs to be the following note up within the scale that the songs remains in. This provides you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be put on any note size (half note, quarter note, 8th note) - yet when soloing, it's usually related to 8th notes.

Merely precede any kind of chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (with the whole chromatic scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your present range. Cm7 enunciation (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to intriguing 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 scale over - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).

The majority of jazz piano Improvisation exercises piano solos feature an area where the melody quits, and the pianist plays a series of chord enunciations, to an interesting rhythm. These consist of chord tone soloing, strategy patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal structures', 'playing out' and extra.