Description
This tutorial teaches the concepts necessary to know and use in order to improvise a single note melody, lead or solo over a major key chord progression. If you are a beginner to the idea of improvising, then you should start by working through this earlier tutorial that provides a lot of basic material needed to understand this current tutorial.
Introduction to Improvisation For Beginners
This tutorial expands on these concepts: key signature as the scale that relates all chords in a progression, rhythmically targeting chord tones, building melodies and musical phrases from the scale and chord tones as a basis for improvising over the chord progression.
In this tutorial we'll look at identifying key signature as the major scale all (or most) of the notes in the song belong to (or the melody, riff, section of the song). Then we'll take that scale and use it to target chord tones. We'll learn to make phrases, statements and melodies from those basic materials so our improvisation sounds musical.
Lesson Info
Tutorial Lessons
- Improvisation In A Major Key: Introduction
- Identifying The Key Signature
- Major Scale Play Along
- Building Phrases That Target Chord Tones
- Basic Melody Play Along
- Basic Melody An Octave Higher
- Octave Higher Basic Melody Play Along
- Adding a Slide To The Basic Melody
- Adding a Slide Play Along
- Adding a Slide An Octave Higher
- Slide an Octave Higher Play Along
- Adding a Bend To The Basic Melody
- Adding a Bend Play Along
- Adding a Bend An Octave Higher
- Bend an Octave Higher Play Along
- Conclusion
