Prepared to improve your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? A lot more merely, if you're playing a tune that remains in swing time, then you're currently playing to a triplet feeling (you're picturing that each beat is separated into three 8th note triplets - and every off-beat you play is postponed and used the 3rd triplet note (so you're not even playing 2 uniformly spaced 8th notes to start with).
So instead of playing two eight notes in a row, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note into 3 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides size. The first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which means to make up tunes utilizing the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
I normally play natural 9ths over most chords - including all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal appearance' seems finest if you play your right hand loudly, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - to ensure that the listener hears the melody note ahead.
Merely precede any chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, bookmarks walk up in half-steps (via the whole colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your existing scale. Cm7 expression (7 9 3 5) with single melody note (C) played to fascinating rhythm.
Currently you might play this 5 note scale (the incorrect notes) over the same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you simply play the same notes that you're currently playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
NOTE: You likewise get a great series of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you intend to play a short range in your solo. Nonetheless, to quit your having fun from appearing foreseeable (and break out of 8th note pattern), you need to differ the rhythms now and then.
So instead of playing two eight notes in a row, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note into 3 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides size. The first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which means to make up tunes utilizing the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
I normally play natural 9ths over most chords - including all 3 chords of the major ii-V-I. This 'chordal appearance' seems finest if you play your right hand loudly, and left hand (chord) a little bit more quiet - to ensure that the listener hears the melody note ahead.
Merely precede any chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, bookmarks walk up in half-steps (via the whole colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your existing scale. Cm7 expression (7 9 3 5) with single melody note (C) played to fascinating rhythm.
Currently you might play this 5 note scale (the incorrect notes) over the same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you simply play the same notes that you're currently playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
NOTE: You likewise get a great series of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you intend to play a short range in your solo. Nonetheless, to quit your having fun from appearing foreseeable (and break out of 8th note pattern), you need to differ the rhythms now and then.