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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.
How do you improvise over chords?
Soloing Over a Key
- End your phrases on the root note. It will reinforce the key.
- Listen for the notes that sound best over each chord. ...
- Change positions when you play so you play low notes and high notes. ...
- Use dynamics by varying the volume of your playing.
- Use bends, slides, and vibrato to enhance your solos.
What is chord improvisation?
Improvising on chords with chord scales means that a soloist can play melody notes that he or she does not recognize or cannot identify and control by ear. This can result in wandering, shapeless, directionless, or mechanical-sounding melody lines.
What does playing over chords mean?
Exactly. To play intelligently (and musically) "over a chord" one has to bear in mind not only the notes in the chord itself, but those in the surrounding context (if there is one, and here usually is). This actually makes one's job easier than seeing each chord separately... That's "playing the changes".
