Wow. I am going really really spend time with this. This looks FANTASTIC! Makes so much sense and I can see how / why it works. Drills so many skills at once while cutting a real path toward improv. Brilliant!!!!
Why does it sometimes sound good and sometimes bad in the last exercise when I do the one semitone down on the motif? How do you know which sounds good?. Bc he wasn't ending on any notes on the key even, in his example.
This is awesome. I've been doing this as a "self-taught" keyboardist, BUT it's definitely to see I'm on the right track. Thanks for this and the techniques!
Wow This is fantastic! Thanks a million for making and sharing this video...These 3 exercises go a very long way towards demystifying improvisation, for me. I especially love the 'Guide Tone Line' tip (and the helpful visual graphic). I've never comes across this particular improvisation tip anywhere else before 😃
Thank you so much!! I'm going to use these techniques, your channel has helped me develop as a pianist and through a bit of spicy jazz magic in my piano playing!
This is awesome! One thing I would add is another aspect of #3 - pattern recognition and development. This also stems from common licks and riffs you hear all the time. A good example is Bill Evans solo at 2:01 in Autumn Leaves off Portrait in Jazz. One thing that's helped me a lot is playing a particular pattern with specific fingering (e.g. RH: 2-1-3-2-4-1 going up C major starting on C) and then doing this pattern in different keys and scales (lydian, altered, etc). Not only does this build technique, but also builds a mastery of a scale over a range of 1 octave starting at any part of the scale that you have access to whenever you're soloing. Combining this with your other exercises I think would be an amazing way to practice!
These are excellent exercises. I've been struggling with practicing improvising in my guitar playing. I've just been bouncing around with different ideas and bits of information. I didn't have any method of going about it. These exercises give a great structured plan for practice. Thanks for posting this!
Guitar is a bit diff as you don’t have to play bass parts. Either focus on scales or melodic notes (that use only parts of scales). Get a backing track app tho.
Thanks for this video! It would be most helpful, however, if the chord names on the top of the visual aid were with white lettering. The black letters are very hard to read. Thanks again.
I'm curious to why you focused on the 3rd and the 7th as notes to stay on? I feel like the root and 5th are stronger notes to hang on when resolving a phrase. I'm not saying that you can't use the 3rd or 7th, just that it's odd you excluded the two strongest notes of the chords. In otherwords, it's fine to end a phrase on the 3rd, say "f" in a d minor or d minor7th chord. But generally the root "d" or even the 5th "a" are seen as being stronger notes in the chord. Same with ending on the 7th. Sure you can, but the 7th usually sounds unresolved. If it's a major 7th it typically wants to go up. Whereas a minor 7th often wants to go down. Of course it's subjective, but you really can't go wrong with resolving a phrase on the root or 5th. I just was curious if there was a reason.
Hey awesome videos you make! One question: Do you have the windows you blend in in the upper left corner available as pdf, powepoint or something? I ask because the information you give is valuable and having these keypoints all summed up after the video would really help remembering stuff, when for example going over it again at a later point.
What I really don't get is the difference between a 2nd and a 9th. For example in C major it is a D. But do I have to play the D over the octave C so it is a 9th? Is a Cadd2 chord the same as a C9 chord?
As far as I know Cadd2 is C D E G (no 7) in any voicing including inversions and notes up/down an octave. C9 instead is a dominant chord with the b7 (Bb). Cmaj9 is a Cmaj7 plus the natural 9. Cmin9 is Cmin7 plus natural 9. In actual playing you can voice it however you want to, including omitting some notes (usually root and fifth)
I'd like to learn this but... please amplify a little more. I am an intermediate player but improvising is completely new to me. I have always played music as written and can't figure out how to start improvising. Everything I see is too advanced...over my head. I really don't understand what that chart is that you pit up.
Thing is there is a million way to write out chords without so much of an agreement. Depends of people, context, background... Just write it as you want but be consistent about it :) A-7(b5) Am7b5 A-7b5 Am with a sliced o
HI, I think this is good but far too fast. I can't see what chords you are playing (and you don't even say what they are), with your left hand. It would be helpful for me to see the annotated keyboard at the bottom of the screen that shows the notes you are playing. I am a beginner !
This is exactly what ive been looking for, an actual systematic approach to improvisation.
You're a great teacher, Anton. I say it a teacher myself. I learn a lot from all your vids. Thanks!
Thank you
You're a fantastic teacher. So many things are clicking for me. Thanks!
What a great teacher !!!!
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Wow. I am going really really spend time with this. This looks FANTASTIC! Makes so much sense and I can see how / why it works. Drills so many skills at once while cutting a real path toward improv. Brilliant!!!!
Great teacher, thanks for this.
Only been practicing for a couple hours and this really helped.
Why does it sometimes sound good and sometimes bad in the last exercise when I do the one semitone down on the motif? How do you know which sounds good?. Bc he wasn't ending on any notes on the key even, in his example.
Great lesson. Thanks a lot. Cheers
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Thank you so much brother
This is awesome. I've been doing this as a "self-taught" keyboardist, BUT it's definitely to see I'm on the right track. Thanks for this and the techniques!
Very nice tips
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hands down
Amazingly talented instructor! Thank you so much!!!
Wow This is fantastic! Thanks a million for making and sharing this video...These 3 exercises go a very long way towards demystifying improvisation, for me.
I especially love the 'Guide Tone Line' tip (and the helpful visual graphic). I've never comes across this particular improvisation tip anywhere else before 😃
Great advice again, thank you very much!
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for the video!
These tips are great, I've been practicing in ways similar to this for a while now without ever describing it this way, and it's helped me progress
great lesson, thanks!
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So useful
Brilliant
Thank you so much!! I'm going to use these techniques, your channel has helped me develop as a pianist and through a bit of spicy jazz magic in my piano playing!
Mannn.. these lessons are so awesome!!!!
It help me so much to learn to improvising
This is awesome! One thing I would add is another aspect of #3 - pattern recognition and development. This also stems from common licks and riffs you hear all the time. A good example is Bill Evans solo at 2:01 in Autumn Leaves off Portrait in Jazz.
One thing that's helped me a lot is playing a particular pattern with specific fingering (e.g. RH: 2-1-3-2-4-1 going up C major starting on C) and then doing this pattern in different keys and scales (lydian, altered, etc). Not only does this build technique, but also builds a mastery of a scale over a range of 1 octave starting at any part of the scale that you have access to whenever you're soloing. Combining this with your other exercises I think would be an amazing way to practice!
That’s amazing, thanks.
Excellent lesson, thank you!
These are excellent exercises. I've been struggling with practicing improvising in my guitar playing. I've just been bouncing around with different ideas and bits of information. I didn't have any method of going about it. These exercises give a great structured plan for practice. Thanks for posting this!
Guitar is a bit diff as you don’t have to play bass parts. Either focus on scales or melodic notes (that use only parts of scales). Get a backing track app tho.
Great tutorials! I wish I had come across this video a long time ago. Thanks so much for doing these tutorial videos!
Thanks for this video! It would be most helpful, however, if the chord names on the top of the visual aid were with white lettering. The black letters are very hard to read. Thanks again.
Excellent
and just like that, you've gained a new subscriber
If I play 3 notes chords only-
Which of 7 (flat\sharp) notes should I play?
Very helpful!
Exactly what I want to know right now! I am facing the lead sheet of Fly me to the moon, wondering how to improvise.
This is so good. Thank you!
This is nice! Just a thought: your lh is so low that it sounds a bit muddy.
Amazing video, learned alot!
Wow! So easy...
I'm curious to why you focused on the 3rd and the 7th as notes to stay on? I feel like the root and 5th are stronger notes to hang on when resolving a phrase. I'm not saying that you can't use the 3rd or 7th, just that it's odd you excluded the two strongest notes of the chords. In otherwords, it's fine to end a phrase on the 3rd, say "f" in a d minor or d minor7th chord. But generally the root "d" or even the 5th "a" are seen as being stronger notes in the chord. Same with ending on the 7th. Sure you can, but the 7th usually sounds unresolved. If it's a major 7th it typically wants to go up. Whereas a minor 7th often wants to go down. Of course it's subjective, but you really can't go wrong with resolving a phrase on the root or 5th. I just was curious if there was a reason.
such a good video
Thx you for the lesson it's helpful
Hey awesome videos you make! One question: Do you have the windows you blend in in the upper left corner available as pdf, powepoint or something? I ask because the information you give is valuable and having these keypoints all summed up after the video would really help remembering stuff, when for example going over it again at a later point.
just take a screenshot😂thats what i do
Thx for the lesson
solid tips!
What I really don't get is the difference between a 2nd and a 9th. For example in C major it is a D. But do I have to play the D over the octave C so it is a 9th?
Is a Cadd2 chord the same as a C9 chord?
As far as I know Cadd2 is C D E G (no 7) in any voicing including inversions and notes up/down an octave. C9 instead is a dominant chord with the b7 (Bb). Cmaj9 is a Cmaj7 plus the natural 9. Cmin9 is Cmin7 plus natural 9. In actual playing you can voice it however you want to, including omitting some notes (usually root and fifth)
cool man
I'd like to learn this but... please amplify a little more. I am an intermediate player but improvising is completely new to me. I have always played music as written and can't figure out how to start improvising. Everything I see is too advanced...over my head. I really don't understand what that chart is that you pit up.
*Question:* Am7b5 is (as far as I am aware) another way of writing A diminished, so is there a reason for not writing A diminshed instead?
It's actually half-diminished
Thing is there is a million way to write out chords without so much of an agreement. Depends of people, context, background...
Just write it as you want but be consistent about it :)
A-7(b5) Am7b5 A-7b5 Am with a sliced o
Most important thing is to land on the 3rd or 7th, something no one has every said on youtube.
Nice dude
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Wish i found this video before, so damn useful! 👏
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Why I can not open the page? :(
Do you need to already know how to play before start?
HI, I think this is good but far too fast. I can't see what chords you are playing (and you don't even say what they are), with your left hand. It would be helpful for me to see the annotated keyboard at the bottom of the screen that shows the notes you are playing. I am a beginner !
Cm7, F7 2nd inv, BbM7, EbM7 2nd inv, Am7b5, D7 2nd inv, Gm7. its much easier to play than type out
@@sethirving Thanks Seth.
You could also reproduce the the video slower. It's a feature of youtube.
Man it's day 1 evening of following the first step. Can I stop please????
Autumn leaves?
Haha this is literally lifetime homework :)
All hail The Lick
I was taught to never put guide tones below D3.
oh It seems that the server is down. :(
Great lesson!! Thanx for the inspiration.
Thank you so much!! So helpful!
Thank you so much sir
These are awesome tools. Thank you so much !
Great lesson, thank you 🙌🏻