How to Improvise Over Chord Changes

Publisher: Hal Leonard
Series: How to Series
Authors: Shawn Wallace, Dr. Keith Newton, Kris Johnson, Steve Kortyka
 

This is a step-by-step guide to help you develop essential skills for improvisation. The concepts presented are first demonstrated over the 12-bar blues progression; in later chapters, the ideas are realized over rhythm changes and in original compisitions based on the chord progressions of jazz standards.

Topics include:

• •  scales and modes
• •  chords and riffs
• •  transposition
• •  musical quotation
• •  phrasing and articulation
  
  
  
  

• How to Play Blues Piano by Ear
• How to Harmonize on the Piano
• How to Play Boogie Woogie Piano
• How to Improvise Over Chord Changes