Prepared to enhance your jazz piano technique exercises improvisation skills for the piano? Extra simply, if you're playing a track that's in swing time, then you're already playing to a triplet feel (you're visualizing that each beat is divided into 3 eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is postponed and used the 3rd triplet note (so you're not also playing 2 equally spaced eighth 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 separate that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same length. The first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which suggests to compose melodies making use of the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
I typically play natural 9ths above most chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal structure' sounds best if you play your right hand noisally, and left hand (chord) a bit quieter - to make sure that the audience listens to the melody note on top.
Merely come before any type of chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (with the entire colorful scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your existing scale. Cm7 enunciation (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to intriguing rhythm.
Currently you might play this 5 note scale (the wrong notes) over the very same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you simply play the same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
KEEP IN MIND: You additionally get a wonderful series of actions to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a short range in your solo. However, to quit your playing from sounding foreseeable (and break out of eighth note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms from time to time.
So as opposed to playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would 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 strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which suggests to compose melodies making use of the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
I typically play natural 9ths above most chords - consisting of all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal structure' sounds best if you play your right hand noisally, and left hand (chord) a bit quieter - to make sure that the audience listens to the melody note on top.
Merely come before any type of chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (with the entire colorful scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your existing scale. Cm7 enunciation (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to intriguing rhythm.
Currently you might play this 5 note scale (the wrong notes) over the very same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you simply play the same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
KEEP IN MIND: You additionally get a wonderful series of actions to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a short range in your solo. However, to quit your playing from sounding foreseeable (and break out of eighth note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms from time to time.