Prepared to enhance your jazz piano improvisation exercises improvisation skills for the piano? A lot more simply, if you're playing a track that's in swing time, then you're currently playing to a triplet feel (you're picturing 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 equally spaced eighth notes to begin with).
So rather than playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split 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 suggests to compose tunes using the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
For this to work, it needs to be the next note up within the range that the music is in. This provides you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be put on any kind of note size (fifty percent note, quarter note, 8th note) - however when soloing, it's typically put on eighth notes.
Merely precede any type of chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (through the entire colorful scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your current scale. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with solitary tune note (C) played to interesting rhythm.
Now you might play this 5 note scale (the wrong notes) over the very same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this method you simply play the exact same notes that you're currently playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
KEEP IN MIND: You additionally get a nice series of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a brief range in your solo. However, 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.
So rather than playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split 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 suggests to compose tunes using the 4 chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
For this to work, it needs to be the next note up within the range that the music is in. This provides you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be put on any kind of note size (fifty percent note, quarter note, 8th note) - however when soloing, it's typically put on eighth notes.
Merely precede any type of chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (through the entire colorful scale), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your current scale. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with solitary tune note (C) played to interesting rhythm.
Now you might play this 5 note scale (the wrong notes) over the very same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this method you simply play the exact same notes that you're currently playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
KEEP IN MIND: You additionally get a nice series of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a brief range in your solo. However, 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.