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Improvising Ballad Style Exercise Four.
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You can double up on your notes
with thirds, sixths, or octaves.
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So if you always just use single
notes in your improvisation,
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it can sound quite thin.
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So you can add a note to that
melody line to thicken it up.
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And add the extra note
beneath the melody note.
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So if you are playing a tune.
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Add the extra note underneath
because you will pick a top note.
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Okay, and stick to notes of
the key you're playing in.
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So for
instance the white notes in C major.
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So.
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So a third is a note
three scale tones away.
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A sixth is a note six scale tones away.
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So.
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And of course an octave is one octave
apart, root note to root note.
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And that sounds quite different
than just playing the single note.
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It's a lovely sharp, clean sound.
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And the reason we use thirds,
just stick to thirds, [SOUND] sixths,
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[SOUND] and octaves,
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[SOUND] is because they'll work more
consistently with more notes in the scale.
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But in saying that, they don't always
sound right with every tone, so
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we use your own judgement.
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So let's try thirds, sixths, and
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octaves with your basic ballads,
that improvisation.
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So you've played that before.
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Now you're going to add thirds.
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So.
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Sixths.
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Now look at the sheet music and
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you'll see I've written in the two notes
that you're going to be playing, so this
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is E and C, and then you're just going to
lock your fingers and move down the scale.
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And finally, octaves.
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You can see that they're both start on E.
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