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Old 09-05-2005, 04:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
dizforprez
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Re: Just starting improv

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Originally Posted by butxifxnot
I've just been to a camp of sorts, and there was a cellist who could play piano something awesome (including improvised piano jazz accompaniment). He was playing piano in Bb (a swing beat) and I found out that I can do a little improvising. The only real thing to keep in mind of are the chord progressions and the beat and you're pretty well set to play what you want via blues scales, minor key, major key with some alterations, etc.

Any advice? To continue learning, I mean.
Take a tune(such as a simple blues) and a metronome. Play though the tune several times, each time playing different notes of the chord(1st time play all the roots, 2nd time play all the 3rds, etc..), after you can do that play simply patterns or scales over the chords. (ie 123454321)

also practice writing out ,on some staff paper, some improve over the changes .
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