A Beginner Overview To Jazz Piano Improvisation

Prepared to improve your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? A lot more simply, if you're playing a tune that's in swing time, after that you're already playing to a triplet feeling (you're imagining that each beat is split into three 8th note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and played on the third triplet note (so you're not even playing two uniformly spaced eighth notes to start with).

So as opposed to playing two eight notes straight, which would 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 coincides length. The very first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which implies to make up melodies using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I generally play all-natural 9ths over many chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal texture' sounds best if you play your right hand noisally, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - to ensure that the audience hears the melody note on top.

It's fine for these rooms ahead out of range, as long as they end up dealing with to the 'target note' - which will normally be one of the chord tones. The 'chord scale above' approach - come before any chord tone (1 3 5 7) with the note above. In songs, a 'triplet' is when you play three equally spaced notes in the area of 2.

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

NOTE: You also obtain a great collection of actions to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a short range in your solo. However, to stop your having fun from seeming predictable (and break out of 8th note pattern), you need to vary the rhythms now and Bookmarks then.