25 Easy Ii

All set to boost your jazz improvisation abilities for the piano? A lot more merely, if you're playing a tune that remains in swing time, then you're already playing to a triplet feeling (you're imagining that each beat is separated right into 3 eighth note triplets - and every off-beat you play is postponed and played on the 3rd triplet note (so you're not also playing two evenly spaced eighth notes to begin with).

So rather than playing two 8 notes straight, which would certainly last one quarter note ('one' - 'and'), you can split that quarter note into three 'eighth note triplet' notes - where each note of the triplet is the same size. The first improvisation method is 'chord tone soloing', which suggests to make up tunes using the four chord tones of the chord (1 3 5 7).

I normally play all-natural 9ths over many chords - including all 3 chords of the significant ii-V-I. This 'chordal texture' sounds ideal if you play your right hand noisally, and left hand (chord) a little bit quieter - so that the audience hears the melody note ahead.

It's great for these enclosures ahead out of scale, as long as they wind up resolving to the 'target note' - which will generally be among the chord tones. The 'chord scale above' technique - precede any chord tone (1 3 5 7) with the note above. In songs, a 'triplet' is when you play 3 uniformly spaced notes in the space of 2.

Now you might play this 5 note range (the wrong notes) over the exact same C minor 7 chord in your left hand. With this technique you just play the same notes that you're already playing in the chord. Chord range over - half-step listed below - target note (e.g. E - C# - D).

KEEP IN MIND: You likewise get a great series of actions to play, Bookmarks from 7 - 1 - 9 - 3 - if you want to play a brief range in your solo. Nevertheless, to quit your having fun from sounding predictable (and burst out of 8th note pattern), you require to differ the rhythms from time to time.