It's all concerning discovering jazz piano improvisation rhythms language when it comes to ending up being a great jazz improviser. So unlike the 'half-step below strategy' (which can be outside the range), when coming close to from over it appears better when you keep your notes within the scale that you remain in. That's why it's called the 'chord range above' technique - it remains in the scale.

So rather than playing 2 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 very first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which suggests to compose tunes using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

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

It's fine for these enclosures to find out of scale, as long as they end up solving to the 'target note' - which will usually be one of the chord tones. The 'chord range over' technique - come before any type of chord tone (1 3 5 7) with the note above. In songs, a 'triplet' is when you play 3 evenly spaced notes in the area of 2.

Jazz artists will play from a variety of pre-written melodious shapes, which are placed before a 'target note' (generally a chord tone, 1 3 5 7). First let's develop the 'proper notes' - usually I would certainly play from the dorian scale over minor 7 chord.

NOTE: You likewise obtain a nice series of steps to play, from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you intend to play a short range in your solo. Nonetheless, to stop your playing from seeming predictable (and break out of eighth note pattern), you require to vary the rhythms every now and then.