![]() ![]() Mmmmmaestro, the book I'm using is called "Bill Evans - 19 arrangements for solo piano" by Bill Evans and Andy Laverne. Ritincop, I wasn't pedalling on that 3rd beat, so now you've given me something to try. You know, the thing that is so fantastic about this forum is that you can write a question on just about anything and get tons of helpful feedback. Use appogiatura – (non scale tones that occur on a strong beat – and resolve by ½ step to a chord tone.) Transpose the Left hand into another key and play 8/16 bars in a totally different key – maybe to a key that is up or down from the original key by a semitone (to Db), or a minor 3rd (to Eb).ĥ. Try to finish on a ‘strong’ note – the root, 3rd or 5th.ģ.ěriefly move the melody to another key - try G Major – which will give the melody a lydian sound.Ĥ. Use glissando – turn your hand over and run your fingernail(s) up or down the keyboard rapidly.Use trills – 2 notes rapidly repeated – or other ornaments.Play 2 notes played together – 3rds or 6ths sound best – set your thumb and little finger the appropriate distance apart and harmonize a little melody using the white notes – you will hear the top note as the melody, while the lower note is the harmony.Use perhaps the C Major Pentatonic – (C,D,E,G,A), or the G Major pentatonic scale – (G,A,B,D,E) That is the major scale without the 4th or 7th degrees of the scale). Use pentatonic scales (pentatonic = 5 tones = these steps from the major scale – 1,2,3,5,6.Use triads or scale tone 7th chords or fourths from the scale as arpeggios or broken chords.Just fragments of the whole scale – 2, 3 or 4 notes repeated a number of times.Play the whole scale - beginning on any note – but chose a ‘good’ note to finish on!.Try to ‘surround’each of these notes of the C major triad with a note above, then a note below then the chord tone.(a leading tone is a note a semitone beneath the target tone). Put a leading tone on each of the main notes of the C triad.The most ‘important’ notes melodically in this scale are the notes of the C Major triad – C,E,G.PEACE PIECE - Bill Evans – from “Everybody Digs Bill Evans†I give them just the 'head' and encourage them to improvise after that. I give them the following as a suggestion sheet. It is so simple, allows them to practise pedalling (as suggested by ritincop above) and it serves as an easy introduction to improvisation. I use this for students in a jazz course who are learning piano as a 2nd instrument. The story I have heard is that this was originally just an improvised thing that Bill Evans played in the studio while 'noodling' around, waiting to record Leonard Bernstein's 'Some Other Time' - if you know this, you will recognise the similarities immediately.
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