How to Practice Improvisation through Melodic Variation: Two Approaches
✅ Buy Jeremy's book 📚 at http://www.jeremysiskind.com/shop/ ✅ Buy me a coffee! ☕️ https://bmc.link/siskindpiano ✅ Schedule a lesson 📆 w/Jeremy. Save $5 w/code YOUTUBE: https://rb.gy/fatrw ✅ Sign up 📝 for Jeremy's mailing list at http://eepurl.com/geqUkz Pianist, composer, author, and perennial underdog Jeremy Siskind shares two approaches to improvising starting with the melody, applied to Thelonious Monk's tune "Round Midnight" with a "swung 16ths" feel. The first approach discusses improvising based on increasing levels of distance from the melody. The second is based on specific techniques like a pedal tone, ornamentation, arpeggios, and scales.
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