Jazz Piano Improv Tricks 1

Here's some fun ways to take some classic pentatonic scales and displace, permutate and variate them.
What once was simple safe notes, are now colourful note selections.

'Don't play the butter notes' - Miles Davis

Why pick the stable predictable notes when you can inject your sound with colour.

Harmony built off of 4ths.  It's wild, it's whacky, it's wicked.  Check it out.

When you're looking to really condense the spacing of your melodic lines, fill tones are a great sound to turn to.

Learn to slip onto the right note with grace.  The chromatic and percussive technique is the perfect spice to an already tasty improv.

These magical scales provide a safe starting point to any improvisors collection of techniques.

A quick go-to harmonic approach for improvisors. 
While this technique works best for pianists, anyone can practice these chord voicings to their advantage.   

Augment your improv with this mysterious and spacious sound.

These unique scales have a lot of theoretical application baked into them, so buckle up.
If you like the clarity of a rules-based system then these scales are for you.

These scales are about to offer you a sort of "paint-by-numbers" approach to improvising over your minor ii-V-i chord progressions.

Here's a fun rhythmic trick that's easily combined with many of the other tricks offered in this course.

This class outlines the concept of comping patterns at the piano.

After reviewing this lesson you will better understand some options for your left hand, so that both hands are working more cohesively with one another.

Enlcosures are a big part of what make up the language of bebop.  While used in many styles of jazz, the chromaticism of these enclosures is a fundamental part of a lot of jazz improvisation.

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