| The next ITG Journal Jr. will include an article I wrote on the things you should do to begin learning to improvise jazz.
The most important thing, IMO, is to listen a lot to great jazz recordings and then, after lots of listening, try to play along with the recordings by ear.
Other important things are to learn music theory (intervals, chords, and scales, etc.), learn to play jazz harmonies on the keyboard, and simply to experiment with improvising. Play-along recordings are particularly useful, because they don't mess up and they are patient enough to play a tune a thousand times while you pull yourself together. No living accompanist has that tolerance for my ineptitude!!!
That Journal Jr. should be available very soon. |