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In this jazz tutorial, we take you through a 7-step progressive exercise to practice improvisation. This exercise is suitable for all levels and can be practiced daily as a warm-up, for cleaning up concepts, doing ear training, and memorizing songs. The instructor starts with step one, which involves choosing a standard, in this case, “My Foolish Heart“. Then, they demonstrate how to play the seventh chords broken in eighth notes, in root position, and play the arpeggios going up. As the exercise progresses, the instructor introduces inversions and challenges the viewer's ability to make decisions while improvising by removing the rule of playing the complete seventh chord and going up or down. Instead, the viewer can break the chord as they wish. The instructor then introduces a chromatic approach from below on the downbeat of the chord and a trapping the note technique, which involves playing an enclosure before the downbeat and targeting the note on the downbeat. After going through the 7-step exercise, the instructor encourages the viewer to integrate some “free play“ into their playing and improvise over the entire song using the concepts they just practiced. This way, the viewer can let their ears guide them and see these concepts emerge in their playing without having to think about them consciously. Overall, this tutorial provides an excellent exercise for jazz musicians to practice improvisation and improve their skills, no matter their level. It is 7-step exercise you can practice every day. And you can stop on any step (but always start on step 1) Step 1: Broken chords up in root position Step 2: Broken chord up in inversions (think of target notes) Step 3: Up then down Step 4: Down then up Step 5: Broken, angular, no need to use all notes in the chord Step 6: Chromatic approach to the first note from below Step 7: Enclosure (trapping) Diatonic Chromatic (anticipate) Don't forget to practice “free play“ after the last step. 🎵 You can download Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro here: The supplementary PDF will be available for our “Exclusive Access“ members Aug-Sep 2022. Join here: ☑️ Stay up-to-date with new music books or apps. We will only notify you when we release a new book or app, during giveaways, free upgrades, and sale events. Don't miss out on our regular sales of music apps and books. As always, thanks for your support ☞ (learn when new music apps, books and courses become available and don't miss out on our regular sales) 💬 Did you enjoy this video? Let us know in the comments and don't forget to subscribe to mDecks Music here ⤵️ --------------- 🎼 Welcome to the official YouTube channel of mDecks Music - “Without Music, Life would be a mistake.“ 🎼 mDecks Music is your home on YouTube for music lessons, whether they be deep dives into tonality, tips on improvisation, how to switch from classical piano to jazz, or how to decode a piece from your favorite film score. ➡️ On this channel, I'll provide free music theory lessons, tutorials, as well as piano lessons, and lessons on upper structures, and improvisation. --------------- 📲 Follow mDecks Music on social media: FACEBOOK ☞ TWITTER ☞ INSTAGRAM ☞ ✅ For more information visit our website 🎵 YOU CAN JOIN OUR “EXCLUSIVE ACCESS“ MEMBERSHIP HERE: 🎵 If you want to download the content we've published in previous months (piano arrangements, music theory lessons, 12-key workouts, music questionnaires, and more, visit: --------------- ⏱ Video Chapters: 0:00 7-step improv exercise (My Foolish Heart) 0:53 Step 1 - Broken chords up in root position 1:39 Step 2 - Broken chord up in inversions (think of target notes) 2:54 Step 3 - Up then down 3:18 Step 4 - Down then up 3:41 Step 5 - Broken, angular, no need to use all notes in the chord 4:31 Step 6 - Chromatic approach to the first note from below 5:44 Step 7 - Enclosure (trapping) Diatonic Chromatic (anticipate) 7:10 Free Play 8:12 How to Download the Sheet Music PDF --------------- #jazzimprovisation #jazzpianolessons #jazzlessons #jazzguitar #jazzmusic #jazztheory #pianoexercise #MusicTheory #mDecksMusic #pianojazzhowto
