A Beginner Overview To Jazz Piano Improvisation

Prepared to enhance your jazz piano improvisation improvisation skills for the piano? A lot more merely, if you're playing a song that's in swing time, after that you're already playing to a triplet feeling (you're envisioning that each beat is divided 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 equally spaced 8th notes to start with).

So instead of playing 2 eight notes straight, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can divide that quarter note right into 3 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same size. The first improvisation method is 'chord tone soloing', which means to compose melodies using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I usually play all-natural 9ths over most chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal appearance' sounds finest if you play your right hand noisally, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - to make sure that the audience listens to the melody note on the top.

Merely precede any chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (through the entire chromatic scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your current scale. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with solitary melody note (C) played to interesting rhythm.

Currently you could play this 5 note range (the incorrect notes) over the same C small 7 chord in your left hand. With this strategy you just play the very 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 likewise get a nice collection of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you wish to play a short range in your solo. Nonetheless, to quit your playing from sounding predictable (and burst out of 8th note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms now and then.