Anyone like to improvise?
Hi. I have always had a desire to be able to sit at the piano and just play - without knowing what I will play. It seems to be a daunting task, but since I found a great teacher who was classically trained before becoming a professional jazz pianist, I have made some progress. When I don’t feel like practicing I sit at the piano and play a simple chord sequence - for example Fm7, Bbm7, Cm7, Fm7 - and find notes and phrases that sound good to me.
Does anyone else improvise or plan to learn how to? It would be good to share ideas.
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Thank you both for your input. Will look into those recordings, and perhaps one day, find a teacher. I've been doing much online study of jazz theory, but to attempt creating any 'beautiful' solos, there is a huge knowledge gap so far. Have been enjoying your posts. Thank you both! :-)
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Hello everyone, just wanted to say that there are some very interesting things going on here! I'll be back with a few more posts of my own when I next get a chance to record something. (right now I'm cramming for the "Unfinished Business" challenge and it's monopolizing my piano time, but this topic and thread remains dear to my heart so I'll have some more posts soon!) In the meantime, Keep Jamming everyone!
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Here is my take on a ii-v-i progression in A minor. I am treating the first chord Bm7b5 as chord 6 of the D JMM scale, the second chord E+7#9 (or b9) as chord 7 of F JMM, and the third chord Am6 as chord 1 of A JMM.