Ready to improve your jazz piano improvisation for beginners improvisation skills for the piano? Much more simply, if you're playing a song that remains in swing time, after that you're already playing to a triplet feel (you're envisioning that each beat is separated into 3 eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is delayed and used the third triplet note (so you're not also playing 2 uniformly spaced 8th notes to start with).
So rather than playing 2 8 notes straight, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can divide that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides size. The first improvisation technique is 'chord tone soloing', which suggests to make up melodies using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
For this to function, it requires to be the following note up within the range that the music is in. This gives you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be put on any note size (half note, quarter note, eighth note) - but when soloing, it's usually applied to 8th notes.
Simply precede any kind of chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, walk up in half-steps (through the whole colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your present scale. Cm7 enunciation (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to interesting rhythm.
Now you can play this 5 note range (the incorrect notes) over the same C small 7 chord in your left hand. With this strategy you simply play the very same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale over - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
A lot of jazz piano solos feature a section where the tune quits, and the pianist plays a collection of chord voicings, to a fascinating rhythm. These include chord tone soloing, approach patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal appearances', 'playing out' and much more.
So rather than playing 2 8 notes straight, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can divide that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet coincides size. The first improvisation technique is 'chord tone soloing', which suggests to make up melodies using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).
For this to function, it requires to be the following note up within the range that the music is in. This gives you 5 notes to play from over each chord (1 3 5 7 9) - which is plenty. This can be put on any note size (half note, quarter note, eighth note) - but when soloing, it's usually applied to 8th notes.
Simply precede any kind of chord tone by playing the note a half-step below. To do this, walk up in half-steps (through the whole colorful range), and make note of all the notes that aren't in your present scale. Cm7 enunciation (7 9 3 5) with single tune note (C) played to interesting rhythm.
Now you can play this 5 note range (the incorrect notes) over the same C small 7 chord in your left hand. With this strategy you simply play the very same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord scale over - half-step below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).
A lot of jazz piano solos feature a section where the tune quits, and the pianist plays a collection of chord voicings, to a fascinating rhythm. These include chord tone soloing, approach patterns, triplet rhythms, 'chordal appearances', 'playing out' and much more.