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✅ Learning improvisation today is within everyone’s reach!
For us musicians of the 21st century it is important and fundamental to know these techniques and the way in which the great masters of the past used them artfully
to compose the extraordinary music that we play today.
🚀 If we master these patterns:
– We can better understand and interpret, what we play
– We can compose new music, based on these patterns
– We can improvise new music from scratch because we know the grammar of this musical language!
🎉 For that I created Improvisation Elements, a set of different improvisation exercise videos, for each of which you can download a PDF to practice whenever you want.
Improvisation Elements is an ambitious project and is reserved for those who support my work on Patreon.
📅 Every week I upload new Improvisation Elements videos, on different topics, Sequences, Scales, Cadences, and more!
You too can learn improvisation! You can do it now too!
Join Improvisation Elements here, on Patreon.
And start now your exciting journey!
In this video we do practice with the sequence Fifth down Fourth up.
First, we harmonize this sequence in F major, and than we apply diminutions with the left hand.
Watch the video, download the PDF, and GOOD JOB!
In this video we do practice with the sequence Fifth down Fourth up.
More closely we use diminutions with both hands!
Download the PDF and do Practice!
In this video we do practice with the sequence Fifth down Fourth up in other 2 keys.
We do practice with all combinations.
Download the PDF and do Practice!
In this video we do practice with the sequence Fifth down Fourth up in other 2 keys.
We do practice with all combinations.
Download the PDF and do Practice!
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var. 1.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var. 2.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var. 3.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 4.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 5.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 6.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 7.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 8.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 9.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this video we do practice with the Cadence 1 of Spiridione, var 10.
First of all we study how this cadence is composed, than we can apply this pattern through all the keys of the keyboard.
In this first video about scale we start the long process of harmonizing scales.
The most simple kind of scale harmonization consists in harmonizing scales with parallel thirds.
We gonna practicing parallel thirds through all major keys to develop harmony and counterpoint awareness in all major keys.
In this second video about scales we play diminutions with the Right Hand.
What we learn with this exercise is how to move the melody of the right hand when the bass moves by stepwise movement.
We gonna practicing diminutions in parallel thirds through all major keys to develop harmony and counterpoint awareness in all major keys.
In this 3rd video about scales we play double diminutions with the Right Hand.
What we learn with this exercise is how to move the melody of the right hand when the bass moves by stepwise movement.
We gonna practicing diminutions in parallel thirds through all major keys to develop harmony and counterpoint awareness in all major keys
This exercises is about parallel 6ths with diminutions in the Left Hand!
Why are these exercises so important?
The reason is that we can develop the awareness of moving voices staying in the harmony or in the counterpoint.
This video is a little, but complete, exercise of improvisation!
An opening phrase in imitation, a sequence and a cadence!
In this exercise we start developing the ability of improvising imitation, than how to continue our musical speech with a sequence, and finally how to conclude it with a cadence.
We gonna practice this exercise through all the major keys!
This exercise is the inversion of Phrase 1.
In this exercise we start developing the ability of improvising imitation, than how to continue our musical speech with a sequence, and finally how to conclude it with a cadence.
We gonna practice this exercise through all the major keys!
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