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Improvising Ballad Style, ex.5.
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Moving beyond the safe notes.
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So, when you feel comfortable using
your safe notes in a variety of ways,
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experiment further by adding in
more variety and more notes.
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Try these examples, number 1.
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Runs.
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Simply continue your safe notes up
the piano for two or more octaves.
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So, basic left hand.
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And your adding on your C, F notes.
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This is actually easier than it looks.
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So the site reading might look difficult.
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But if you just add in the second,
third, fifth.
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First, second, third, fifth.
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First, second, third.
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So groups of three with the fiftht.
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Number 2 Variation in Note Duration.
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So, up to now most of the examples
have used eight half beats per bar.
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Try to vary the duration of the notes.
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So, make use of periods
of silence as well.
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We use quarter notes to add
little movements or excitement.
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So, just follow it carefully.
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Passing notes.
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So these are notes that are used outside
of chord tones, added to add color or
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connect chord tunes in
a more interesting way.
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So just play this one very slowly and
you'll see that I've made the passing
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notes in bold and
underlined them on the page.
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Okay, so you haven't been playing
f at the moment because you've
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been sticking to second,
third, fifth, okay?
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So that got you up to the fifth.
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And this is gonna be a little
run down to your next note.
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And use the F again so it's a passing
note to the next chord tone.
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