Prepared to boost your jazz piano improvisation rhythms improvisation abilities for the piano? More merely, if you're playing a track that's in swing time, then you're already playing to a triplet feel (you're imagining that each beat is split right into three 8th note triplets - and every off-beat you play is postponed and played on the 3rd triplet note (so you're not also playing 2 evenly spaced eighth notes to start with).

So instead of playing 2 eight notes straight, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note right into 3 '8th note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides size. The very first improvisation technique is 'chord tone soloing', which means to compose melodies using the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I generally play all-natural 9ths over a lot of chords - including all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal appearance' seems ideal if you play your right-hand man loudly, and left hand (chord) a bit quieter - to make sure that the listener hears the melody note ahead.

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

Jazz musicians will play from a wide variety of pre-written ariose shapes, which are put prior to a 'target note' (generally a chord tone, 1 3 5 7). First allow's establish the 'proper notes' - normally I would certainly play from the dorian scale over small 7 chord.

NOTE: You additionally obtain a nice series of actions to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you intend to play a short range in your solo. Nonetheless, to stop your having fun from seeming foreseeable (and burst out of eighth note pattern), you need to differ the rhythms once in a while.