RHYTHMIC JAZZ EXERCISES - Coordinate Left & Right Hand

We make a very useful rhythmic exercise for jazz improvisation. The exercise functions as a kind of ever going “motor”. The motor is based on some very simple ideas: we invent a piano “finger sequence“ and we use a pentatonic “hand grip“ and we make rhythm and phrases into a thrilling musical counterpoint!!! Our exercise is fundamental in many ways, if we want to be free to express ourselves when improvising Music. In particular the exercise will make us strong when combining rhythm and phrases in a free manner. Later on in the lesson we add the left hand chords to the exercise. The chords also make a thrilling counterpoint to the rhythm!!! With the “motor“ exercise we automatically learn to put in the left hand chords on all the different sub beats just by following the patterns of the right hand phrases. Then we make different tonal flavors by moving our pentatonic hand grip to different positions on the keys. By the end of the lesson I i