All set to boost your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? Much more just, if you're playing a song that's in swing time, then you're already playing to a triplet feeling (you're visualizing that each beat is separated right into three eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and played on the third triplet note (so you're not also playing 2 evenly spaced 8th notes to begin with).
So rather than playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would 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 length. The very first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which means to make up tunes making use of the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
For this to function, it needs to be the next note up within the scale that the songs is in. This offers you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be related to any note size (fifty percent note, quarter note, 8th note) - but when soloing, it's generally put on eighth notes.
Merely come before any kind of chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (with the entire chromatic range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your current scale. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with single melody note (C) played to intriguing rhythm.
Now you might play this 5 note scale (the incorrect notes) over the same C small 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you simply play the exact same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
The majority of jazz piano improvisation exercises piano solos include an area where the melody stops, and the pianist plays a series of chord enunciations, to an interesting rhythm. These include chord tone soloing, approach patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal appearances', 'playing out' and much more.
So rather than playing 2 8 notes in a row, which would 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 length. The very first improvisation strategy is 'chord tone soloing', which means to make up tunes making use of the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
For this to function, it needs to be the next note up within the scale that the songs is in. This offers you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be related to any note size (fifty percent note, quarter note, 8th note) - but when soloing, it's generally put on eighth notes.
Merely come before any kind of chord tone by playing the note a half-step listed below. To do this, stroll up in half-steps (with the entire chromatic range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your current scale. Cm7 voicing (7 9 3 5) with single melody note (C) played to intriguing rhythm.
Now you might play this 5 note scale (the incorrect notes) over the same C small 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you simply play the exact same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale above - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
The majority of jazz piano improvisation exercises piano solos include an area where the melody stops, and the pianist plays a series of chord enunciations, to an interesting rhythm. These include chord tone soloing, approach patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal appearances', 'playing out' and much more.