Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(Piano) Improvisation Technique: by Musilosophy
(Piano) Improvisation Technique: by Musilosophy
www.musilosophy.com
(Piano) Improvisation
Technique
by Musilosophy
www.musilosophy.com
SUMMARY
1. Keys
Key awareness
Major
Minor
Scale harmonization
2.Chords
Major 7th
Minor 7th
Dominant 7th
Half diminished 7th
Diminished 7th
Inversions
Chord degrees
3.Other scales
Blues
Whole tone
Diminished
Diminished/whole tone
Pentatonic
4.Melody
Melody building
Chordal notes
Turning note
Passing note
Leaning note
Delaying note
Anticipated note
Chromatic note
Double leaning note
Mixed note
“Wrong” notes
5.Phrasing
Beginning of phrase
Ending of phrase
Imitation
6.Rhythm
Emphasizing offbeats and upbeats
Syncopation
Swing
Polyrhythmics
Intervals
Analysis of solos
Improvisation tips
Inside, outside
“Free” improvisation
Improvisation goals
COMPOSING
EAR TRAINING
ARRANGING
ANALYSIS
Site map
|
Home | Pop music videos | Pop blues jazz albums | Jazz improvisation and harmony | Lingua
italiana | HELP and FAQ |
Site menu
● - Blues singer songwriter jazz pianist
● - Pop music videos
● - Pop blues jazz albums
● - Jazz pianist music stores
● - Improvisation : MIOP donation
traditions.
history, religion.
first you have to know all major and minor scales and relative
keys and all chords in every keys. Then you must play all chord
You have to practice so much so you can play right melodic lines
You must learn to begin and finish melodic phrases from every
point of measure.
These techniques can give you the skill for express the music you
have inside.
perfect.
harmony.
Key awareness
Major
Minor
Scale harmonization
2. Chord charts
Major 7th
Minor 7th
Dominant 7th
Diminished 7th
Inversions
Chord degrees
Blues
Whole tone
Diminished
Diminished/whole tone
Pentatonic
Melody building
Chordal notes
Turning note
Passing note
Leaning note
Delaying note
Anticipated note
Chromatic note
Mixed note
Wrong notes
^ TOP
5. Musical phrase
Beginning of phrase
Ending of phrase
Imitation
Syncopation
Swing
Polyrhythmic
General practice
Progressive drills
Fundamental drills
^ TOP
You can learn to improvise. If you know music harmony and you
Contact me
MIOP Donation
|
Home | Pop music videos | Music albums | Jazz improvisation and harmony | Lingua italiana | HELP and FAQ |
Site menu
❍ - Blues singer songwriter jazz pianist
❍ - Pop music videos
❍ - Pop blues jazz albums
❍ - Jazz pianist music stores
❍ - Improvisation : MIOP donation
Chord families
Melody generally uses the notes of a chord or notes that return to it.
You need to know and play every chord very well to improvise.
The fundamental drill is playing every chord and every inversion of each chord.
2. Dominant 7
3. Minor seventh
4. Half-diminished
5. Diminished 7
^ TOP
chords
For example:
^ TOP
^ TOP
Play every inversion and improvise on a chord using just the chordal notes.
Contact me
Home | Pop music videos | Pop blues jazz albums | Jazz improvisation and harmony | Lingua italiana | HELP and
FAQ |
Site menu
❍ - Blues singer songwriter jazz pianist
❍ - Pop music videos
❍ - Pop blues jazz albums
❍ - Jazz pianist music stores
❍ - Improvisation : MIOP donation
Hullo,
I dedicate these pages to all musicians who love creating or composing in real time
I am Italian, and I have some difficulties to write in English but my passion for
Improvisation is great and I want to create a free Open Project about this Art. I prey
you to help me to correct the errors of these pages sending me an email with the
corrections.
If you have any opinion, technique, article, review, or other material about
Many teachers I have had and many manuals I have read about jazz improvisation
"...Use this scale on this chord..." Or "....On this chord you can play these scales....".
They respond: "....Use your fantasy, your ear, your imagination and study many
patters..."
Well! I agree. Fantasy, imagination and ear are fundamental to improvise but are
Jazz has not invented melody and improvisation; good melodies have clear
If you know these rules you improvise or compose music much better and easily.
They base on many centuries of music development and the greatest composers and
^ TOP
Music is language but also a science. It can become also a religion, a way to feel
emotions, express love, explore some unknown places of our soul and feel the
Remember:
Any door you open you find many other doors to open: you can always improve you
art of improvisation.
^ TOP
Contact me
Donate
|
Home | Pop music videos | Pop blues jazz albums | Jazz improvisation and harmony | Lingua
italiana | HELP and FAQ |
Site menu
● - Blues singer songwriter jazz pianist
● - Pop music videos
● - Pop blues jazz albums
● - Jazz pianist music stores
● - Improvisation : MIOP donation
General practice
First play the scales for an octave just with the right hand, then
with both hands; play for 2 and 4 octaves with both hands
Play the chords of every key with right hand then with both hand
note......).
Arpeggiate all 7th chords with right hand (but not only) in their
four inversions.
Improvise only on a chord and using just the four chordal notes
notes, moving the melody up and down the whole keyboard and
playing the chord with the left hand. (You have to play this chord
around C4 and moving the notes less possible when you change
the chord )
but it is amusing and you can feel what creating music means.
your mistakes.
harmonic "errors";.
^ TOP
Ear training
Transcription - Powerful!
LEARN IMPROVISATION
Transposing
Singing
Search
www.musilosophy.
Web com
^ TOP
Listening
Piano improvisors
Bill Evans
Keith Jarrett
Herbie Hanckock
Chick Corea
Ahmad Jamal
Oscar Peterson
Bud Powell
McCoy Tyner
Many others...
Improvisors
Other instruments:
^ TOP
Contact me