25 Easy Ii

All set to boost your jazz piano improvisation exercises improvisation skills for the piano? A lot more simply, if you're playing a track that's in swing time, after that you're currently playing to a triplet feel (you're imagining that each beat is separated right into 3 eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the third triplet note (so you're not even playing two uniformly spaced 8th notes to begin with).

So as opposed to playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can divide that quarter note right into three '8th note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides length. The initial improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which indicates to compose melodies utilizing the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I usually play natural 9ths above a lot of chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal appearance' appears best if you play your right-hand man loudly, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - to ensure that the listener hears the melody note ahead.

Just precede any kind of chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, walk up in half-steps (through the whole colorful scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your present scale. Cm7 enunciation (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to intriguing rhythm.

Now you could play this 5 note range (the incorrect notes) over the same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this strategy you simply play the very same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale over - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).

NOTE: You likewise obtain a good collection of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a short range in your solo. Nonetheless, to stop your having fun from sounding foreseeable (and burst out of eighth note pattern), you need to vary the rhythms once in a while.