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D minor Jazz, Chordal improvisation.
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You've got your progression.
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Turn around.
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You've got your two scales.
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D minor 7, and your blues scale.
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But if you just stick to using
that scale all the time,
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your playing is going to sound bluesy,
not jazzy.
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To create more of a jazz flavor,
you really need to start playing with
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each chord individually, and
this is where jazz gets more difficult.
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You can't just rely on one skill anymore.
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You'll need skills for
every chord change, but don't panic.
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Take it step by step.
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Well, the easiest way,
as we've shown before,
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is to use the chord tones in your right
had, cuz they're easy to remember.
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And, when you're watching the left hand
changes, at least you'll know what notes
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you're using, so you'll be able to
transfer that to the right hand.
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And they're guaranteed to sound okay.
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So the trick is to make them
sound more interesting.
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You have to use them in ways that
don't just sound straightforward, so.
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Okay, so you can make them interesting
in the way you use them and
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the shape you use them in rhythmically.
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So on the next page,
try the chordal improvisation.
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I'm just going to take it very slowly.
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We're not going to add
any rhythm to it as yet.
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Just going to show you what we
are going to do with the chords.
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So, first bar we're just going to
actually just use the chord as it is.
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[SOUND] So, straight off one, three, five,
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seven of D minor, and
we're gonna make that the theme.
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[SOUND] We're going move
down to E minor triad.
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[SOUND] Back up, theme, D minor 7.
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[SOUND] You don't have
to play a lot of notes.
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One will do sometimes, that's variety.
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Back up the theme, [SOUND] and
then suddenly change,
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makes it more interesting.
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And that pattern's a bit
like the previous bar.
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That makes it interesting.
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G minor, we're gonna start in the third
this time, gonna buy some third first,
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third fifth.
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Gonna make that same pattern for
the A minor.
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And then almost the same pattern but
starting on the fifth.
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[SOUND] And then A minor again.
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Now that was just using the chord
tones in a more interesting way.
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But you can also add to that.
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You can jazz it up a bit with the rhythm,
okay,
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with the rhythm in the left hand and the
accent you put on the right hand melody.
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So let's try that.
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Now you notice that the left hand's
also going to add in a rhythmic device.
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Okay, that helps to keep
the momentum going.
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So the right hand's playing exactly what
we played in the previous improvisation.
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But this time.
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