can you give me some adivice for jazz improvisation?
what is a good way to learn improvising Jazz music on the piano. I need some general rules, or a reference. ...
what is a good way to learn improvising Jazz music on the piano.
I need some general rules, or a reference.
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There are no official rules for improv because its spontaneous. That is why it is so much fun. Here is what I would do.
- Practice scales. This is the boring part but its the basis of what all improvisation is. In jazz they say there are no wrong notes. This is true, but there are some notes that sound better in certain chords than others. This is why we practice the hell out of the scales. Learn blues scales, they’re fun and you can pretty much use those in anything.
- Find a song in a I – IV – V pattern. 12 bar blues. I dont know if you want to consider this part of jazz or not, but definately dont start doing bebop progressions right away. Figure out what chords are in the song and where the changes are and make sure you know how to play the right scale for that song.
- Listen to your favorite jazz artist and start picking out licks that catch your ear. Listen to that lick over and over and figure it out on the piano. Learn how to play the lick in all the keys and start modifying it for major and minor and such. Learn lots of licks. When you have a nice library of licks in your head you can start using them in your improv in any song, cause you will know them in all sorts of keys.
- Listen listen listen. Take a whole bunch of artists you like and learn how they play. Transcribe or figure out their solos and memorize them. Keep doing this and you can eventually develop your own style. Once you have your own style you can start creating your own licks based of the licks you know from other artists.
If you do all the stuff I wrote you will be an AMAZING jazz improv artist.
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Miles Davis, and Thelonius Monk. Also check out Art Tatum.
buy a key board instead of piano. then you can easily improvise your jazz
research pentatonics
on piano they’re great to play in the bass while improvising in the treble
i recommend G flat pentatonic first,
its easy because all you play is the black notes!
have fun.
improvisation is just that… improv shouldn’t need to be rehearsed it’s rather something you feel.
I would play around with a song you know well and just go for it… you might stumble on some really great chords and rhythms.
As a vocalist I do a lot of fills and they just come naturally…usually grabbing onto a part that would go with the same chords on the chorus of a song and singing them into the bridge.
Otherwise I don’t rehearse improvisations.
I know nothing of piano playing but I know our keyboardist does what I told you above.
Good luck!
learning to improvise is like learning vocabulary
in language we learn nouns,verbs & words–in music we learn scales
the easiest way to learn improv-is to study & play with the blues scale–the C blues scale:
C D Eb F Gb G A Bb
this scale can be used to play with when doing a blues improvisation in the key of C
the chords would be–C7 F7 G7 and the notes played against those 3 chords would be the notes of the C blues scale (as above)