Improvising

Exciting Improvising: How to Make Up Music As You Play In our lab at Piano University, students learned how to improvise -- make up music as they played. We started by having them break up chords into various rhythm patterns. Then we had them use neighboring tones, passing tones, and blue notes . When they had a mastery of these elements, we had them use chord substitutions and extended chords. They improvised on pop tunes, j..