What is the key to improvisation?
The key to improvising fluently in every key is to first have language that you've transcribed in one key. Throughout your study of this music, you need to develop language over the four basic types of chords you'll encounter: Major, minor, V7, and half-diminished.
How do you improvise a chord progression?
How to Improvise Over Unrelated Chords
- Try to find one simple scale, chord, or set of pitches that work over all the chords. Or at least two or more chords in a row. ...
- Take a short melodic fragment and sequence it. ...
- Ignore the key center movement, simplify the progression, and pick a target key to resolve to.