Jazz Improvisation for Beginners
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In this jazz piano lesson I show you how to improvise. We'll cover 'chord tone soloing', approach patterns, enclosures, rhythm, and how to practice improv.
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Upper structures 😎 👍🏼 🎶
Please make more videos on the subject of ear training and transcribing songs.
More approach patterns that you have not covered previously would be great! Your explanations are fantastic.
Excellent. Next, I would like to see you take a complex tune (Stella by Starlight) or something like that and break down the harmonic structure (key centers, deceptive resolution, modal substituion) and your approach to improv on a more complex structure.
Easy steps to reharm.
I've been a classical pianist for over 10 years now, and I've always thought jazz is impossible. This video was so perfectly clear and simple I was shocked at actually succeeding to implement this. Thank you so much!
So low iq if you've been playing classical 10 years and can't figure out jazz
i been a classical ballsist for 10 years
Literally 20 seconds in and I know this is gonna be a game changer
I learned more in twenty minutes than in several hours! You are a genius at teaching! Everything seems so easy when we listen to you play and explain with passion how to do it. Really, what a talent!
What he said…..
No lies detected.
By showing these tricks you have demystified a lot of jazz improv for me! Thanks alot!
That's great to hear Fred! Thank you. Do you have any other requests for new videos?
@@jazztutorial Hi Julian, I still haven't seen a lot of your videos, so I have plenty to work through at the moment. Thanks again!
@@jazztutorial one thing I’ve wanted to learn is how to play a non jazz song in a jazz framework. Take a song like Happy Birthday or Yesterday or whatever and show how it can be reframed in a jazz style. Show how you can vary the degree of complexity you take in a jazz approach. Can any song be reframed like this? Can Metallica be re-interpreted? Do you have to stick with the standard jazz chord progression through out or can you swing back and forth to suit the original song? Are there any techniques to employ to make sure you are taking the audience with you as you improvise around the root melody?
Finally!! Somebody made jazz understandable for me. You, my friend, have opened up a whole New World to me. I’ve been playing piano for 50 years, and I’ve always wanted to play jazz, but I would get confused anytime I started. So once again, thank you.
I am a classical pianist & composer and I am so interested in playing jazz. I improvise everyday, sometimes it sounds jazzy sometimes very classical and sometimes quite contemporary. Your videos and sheet music help me a lot. Thank you very much dude, I am just so grateful to you. You know how to teach!
Same here
Hey ik this comment is one year ago but if you got any good videos that teach classical improv please tell me 🙏
I like jazz but personally I would like to go in the classical pathway
@@splice_joe381idk video yet, but me i take a scale, usually it's gonna be mimor or change a scale for it's sound more classical, like scale C, i change E to E flat and A to A flat and everything sounds good, for the melody of the left hand i do arpegios or chords/break chords, right hand just do everything you want in the scale, trille, chords, some chromatic if you want, octave. I hope it would help you, if you have any question, i can try to answer it. (And sorry for my bad english, im french)
Samee
This is the man who finally made me understand what modes are, I highly recommend you subscribe to his channel! Thank You!
Miles! It's so good to see you in the comments again. How are you doing?
Thank you for your kind words
We missed you maestro 😊 👍🏼 🎉 glad to have you back! Greetings from Peru 🇵🇪 😃 🙌🏼
I missed you too Leo! I've had my hands full with a new baby but all is well. It's god to be back! Thank you for your kind words.
If you are serious about learning more, I highly recommend Julian's paid classes! I've done them myself, but I realized I wasn't quite ready for the time commitment. As soon as I can, I plan on re-joining! The lessons are so clear, and honestly just show the insane amount of time and effort that he's put into making jazz a lot easier to understand! Thank you!
I concur. I started the paid classes but had to drop out due to work commitments. I plan on rejoining as soon as I am able. Julian is an excellent pianist and teacher.
You are the best jazz teacher on the Internet and if I was a younger man who had lots of time on his hands, I would endeavour to try and learn to improvise as you teach it but I always got stuck on trying to play inverted chords quickly enough that I gave up in frustration. Still great to watch you though. 👍
Thank you so much Robert! I completely understand. To be fair I crammed years of learning into a 20 minute lesson here, but I'm so pleased you enjoyed watching : )
do not give up!
Being not the youngest, i understand the problem!
Practice steadily without overly enthusiasm will improve by time.
I discovered a huge motivation could hinder the progress.
good success and luck!
This is best improvisation tutorial I'm aware of. Now it seems way more approachable. Thanks 😊
Thank you Filip! If I'm going to teach a subject, I want to aim high and do the very best I can imagine. I'm so glad this one helped you.
Let me know if have any future lesson requests
I love the way Julian plays and teaches jazz!
And suddenly it all clicks and i understand jazz!!!! awesome lesson seems so easy when you say it lol!!!
Everything seems so easy when we listen to you play and explain with passion how to do it. Really, what a talent!
You are inspiring me to keep trying. How can my 4 1/2 yr old grandson be better than I? I’m glad he his. Has a great ear
I used to look at jazz chords and chord progression as a misery. Now am feeling ease
The most honest lesson about Jazz on RUclips.
This is amazing, I was having so much trouble figuring out where to start and getting overwhelmed by scales but this feels so much more clear now!!
I have, on occasions, taught improvisation to adult learners. You are the first teacher, other than myself, that I've heard reference speech patterns. I always point out to students lacking confidence that they already improvise every time they speak.
Also, when improvising alone, I will often take a half-remembered poem from school days and use its phrasing and rhythms as a starting point .... or invent my own.
Very generous of you.
Wow! I have been trying to get jazz improv under my fingers for years with lessons that were over my head and you made it so simple.I sat down at the piano after this short lesson and got immediately. Thanks
I think Julian just took me from a beginner jazz pianist to a professional in 19:45 seconds... God Bless you sir for your kindness and sharing with us!! Gonna digest your vids for sure!! Thanks for teaching with such clarity!
I feel like this vid could be titled "Pro Piano for Beginners!!" Hehe!!
Used to think I needed to memorize all those different types of scales to be able to improvise but now you have made my life simple.Awesomeness
Thank you my dear friend. I'm frenh. I don't speak english. I Côme from Island of Réunion in Indian Océan (proximité of Madagascar) My Département is French. Merci infiniment. You are à véritable pédagogue. Thank you very much. I am Flutist and your l'Essonne is 👍👋 A bientôt. JEAN-PAUL
This was an absolutely fantastic dive into improv. I have about 13 years of classic local music training but after starting jazz this was the one thing really holding me back. This is super helpful for making it sound great while still letting you understand the theory!
Great to see you on another superb video Julian. Your clear, no unnecessary frills attached approach cuts through to the chase and are fabulous for players and teachers.
Wow I'm only 1/3 the way through and you unlocked a musical universe for my mind. Multitudes of thanks!
Thank you for making things simple
That’s brilliant, thank you!
I'm a guitar player but these tips are just as valuable for me. Thanks so much for your good work!
I can say it without any doubt:Julian is the greatest teacher I ever met in my life
The content you put out Julian is second to none! You completely demystify complicated subjects and make them accessible to those willing to just practice. Thanks for this amazing video.
Learning to solo and improvise is extremely difficult. In this video you unlock the way to get started in a very clear and simple way and you give very useful tools! Awesome!
Great to see you back bro
Fantastic thanks.
This just proves the point that keeping it simple is the fastest way to develop.
Too many teachers try to make ill begotten money and will try and mistify the obvious in order to throttle the max $ out of a student.
I used to teach jazz guitar decades ago.
I always tried to do exactly the same simple but fast track methods such as he does in his ii V I (vi) examples above.
My biggest problem was that students expected it to be really difficult and was their biggest obstacle breaking the mindset that it MUST be diffcult..
This demonstrates it fantastically.
This is an amazing video. In twenty minutes you've given me a couple of years worth of keyboard practice exercises. I started piano in lockdown aged 55 so I am in no rush to learn to read/write music but I like the fact that you provide extension tasks for those who have those skills. Thank you so much. Andrew
I learned classical piano and was always impressed by jazz improvisation but it seemed so far away. This was such an eye opener, thank you!!
trying to learn improvisation for a about 6 months, this video is the most useful that i have come across! Amazing job. Absolutely brilliantly done!
i'm watching this for the second time and holy smokes i cannot stress enough how much the half step approach and the enclosure approach has helped me. thank you so much
Humpy dumpy sat on a wall ...... all king's horse and all king's men are putting humpy dumpy back again😮🎉🎉 essentials only, major and minor pentatonics practically unexplained , get them under my fingers and into my ears, always taking notes. Thnks Jln
Great lesson🎉
Oh my goodness this explained things more clearly than I’ve seen in years. Could never get my mind around any of it until now. Thank you
Hi Julian, as always, a great video with an excellent and well understandable explanation on the approach patterns for basic Jazz chord progressions as the II V I.
Many thanks!
Julian, I'm never going to be able to do this, but I love watching these videos. They're indispensable to me. You've been gone for a while. I'm glad you're back.
Thank you so much Bob. No pressure, I understand. The key is also to slow it right down. Don't attempt to do this up to speed.
Thank you for your kind words and I hope to post more videos that you'll like soon!
@@jazztutorial Thank you for your videos!!!! They are so helpful, interesting and fabulous!!💜🎈✨🌈
Good vid with clear explainations !
You like jazz?
This is massively helpful! I've been primarily a classically trained piano player for many years but have been wanting to dive more into jazz and gospel. This video was very clear and provided great tips that were easy to understand. Thank you!
Your idea of practicing improvising focusing on the chord tones first has helped me alot👍👍👍...instead of me trying to memorize the whole scale of the chord🤣...thank you.
This is a very important lesson for people trying to get that bebop sound but stuck in playing scales. I wish I had a video like this when I was learning these ideas, would have saved me a lot of time with just playing the major scale or modes not looking at chord tones or chromaticism
You are the Prometeus of jazz, Julian!! Thanks a lot!!!
This is one of the most helpful videos I've seen. You've really made certain things more clear in my mind. Thank you!
Hello Julian. How nice to see you again and explaining those very basic concepts about jazz improvisation. I have been subscribed to your channel for a long time and whenever I am lost I turn to those invaluable advice, because they will always be with me. Continue to delight in your teachings, especially to those of us who still struggle so hard to get the fingers of their hands to hit the correct key; you know what i mean. Thanks for everything, friend.🤩😷
Thank you so much Gerado! I'm so glad my videos are a go to resource for you. That's what I try to do, and I have many more yet to make.
Let me know if you have any future lesson requests?
great! thanks a lot!!
All of this is so useful! I'm especially in need of the rhythm AND the talking with the pauses and the jumps up or down from previous! really useful
I have always had an interest in jazz piano, but was always too intimidated to ever try. Thank you for making this accessible to me. You are a great teacher
I use the same method to improvise on my guitar, I look at the chord shapes and I use the chord notes and approaching notes, works good for me, also is good to learn licks, short licks, to understand how the greatest players think when they are improvising
Thanks Julian, I have been set me free through your tutorial from what others RUclipsrs made look very complicated. I've been wanting get out of my simple and blues way of playing over the past 23 years. Jazz always looked sophisticated and way beyond my skill set but here I am doing what I only dreamed about over the years. I only watched your clip above twice and I'm finding myself entering the wonderful world of jazz. Your teaching and communication skills are exceptional. Thanks again friend.
Fantastic collection of improvisation techniques blended into a single video. Excellent!
Wow Julian, great video. I am a professional jazz trombonist and have been wanting to learn to improvise on piano. This is the most concise and helpful video I have ever seen on the subject. Thanks
I've needed this set of ideas on improvising for over 40 years. Now I have something clear to practise. Many thanks.
4:37 "If you're feeling more advanced you can use a b9"
"More advanced" depending on how much you want to think about things (which obviously matters depending on the context of the band or tune/chord).
It just sounds so damn sweet.
Even if you're not feeling very advanced, I'd definitely encourage people to use all sorts of tones in different contexts to see what combinations and possibilities of flavour exist.
I just meant, you can hear it, regardless of knowledge of theory, use and trust your ears, develop your language ❤️
Jazz improv scares the shit out of me and i still don’t know what notes to play, but this is very helpful so thank you for your channel, I will proceed to watch almost all of your videos
What’s crazy is you can pretty much play anything, it’s about where you land. The fundamentals of jazz are lots of dissonance to a little resolution but generally speaking you don’t want to fully resolve ever. This is all subjective of course.
This lesson is very helpful. Great visuals make the lesson very clear and easy to understand. Excellent work!
That means so much for me to hear. The visuals take the longest, but I believe they are essential to learn jazz theory
This is unbelievable. The pace at which you teach is just makes it perfectly clearer for me. Thank you!
Thanks a lot Julian.!!
This was beyond helpful. Thank you. I’ve learned more about improv in this video than in the last 15 years I’ve sought to learn. Thank you again
this is the single, greatest guide for imrpov I've come across on youtube, really thankful for this
good stuff man thanks for passing this on
Thank you Jason! Do you have any future video requests?
@@jazztutorial For years I was confused on how to get sharp and flat extensions to sound well. It's not very wise to use them as lead tones but rather use them as a harmony accompanying the lead tone. Most people show you how to build the dominant chords with flat and sharp extensions but don't show you how to voice them to sound amazing. You did point out in this video on having a stronger lead tone with certain notes in the chord. Your videos have helped me a lot through the years.
Well one thing that I admire in this video is your approach regarding your communication. You are very specific, the ideas are precise and clearly conveyed. 😀
Dicas excelentes !! Obrigado por compartilhar seus conhecimentos!!!
Great explanation of jazz, I'm going to learn this , I think I'm a jazz fan now. Never really understood any thing about this before, always just seemed like a lot of complicated chords.
What's really cool is that when you used the "half-step below each chord tone" approach over G7, almost all of those notes are in the half-whole diminished scale. Taking the 4 notes in the chord times 2 (adding a note a half-step below each chord tone) gives you 8, which is also octatonic. The only difference between the 2 groups of notes is the b2 in the half-whole diminished scale vs the major 7th you get by approaching G from a half-step below.
非常好的教學，多謝。😊
The best 19:45 minutes lesson on RUclips. You deserve a Medal in teaching. 🥇
This video is very helpful.
Tks Julian & Best Wishes 💝
Funny way to say: Do tf u want🗣️! Absolutely love it!
I love your videos ! Thank you so much for your clear explanations, you're such a good teacher ! I'm discovering a new world, I enjoy now trying to improvise ! I thought I wasn't good enough... it just makes sense to know how it works. Great job Julian !
Thank you so much for your time and effort put into this video! It has been so helpful with some improvisation i’ve been struggling with. My next step is making some more interesting left hand comping!
Julien this tutorial is the best explanation of improv that I have enjoyed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, love your teaching style.
I just learned from your lesson how to form the extended chords 9 11 13 , Jazz and understood it first time. Thank you very much
He is the only one that deserve the ad "piano teachers hate him"
The dude is a teaching genius.
I'm new to piano, and of course therefore new to jazz piano. I'm finding your videos tremendously helpful. I like to get some understanding of the scope of what is to be learned and "mastered" eventually. Just the way my mind works. Thanks for the videos. I'm in no hurry to put it all together, but it's nice to hear what's waiting for me to play with down the road.
This is awesome man. I wish I had seen these types of tutorials a bit sooner haha. Every time I played a solo in my high school band I would always just use the blues scale. Yeah sure it sounds good, but it doesn’t always work and it kinda gets boring! Your tips about the “whole step above” and the “half step below” and the “enclosures” were so good. I’ll really try and master these as it they sound so good when you play them!
Julian , all your tutorials are a 10 , so helpful since I discovered your technique and practice
in a simpler way I haven’t found before. But this one is a 11 ! I am bowled over by your whole
approach the basics of Jazz. I appreciate all the material you sent and I’m looking forward
to taking your course when I will be in position to do so. thank you Julian….NBG
Wow, that means a lot Wayne. Thank you! 11 is the new 10. I'll try to keep the quality up.
Do you have any future lesson requests?
@@jazztutorial Julian, thank you for the offer ,
for the moment with all the material it is more then enough . NBG
@@jazztutorial Julian , thinking about a next video :
at 13:00 min. and rhythm section, rare tutorial are be found on that subject or
not well explained like you do. It goes with dynamics tutorial and make all the difference
when playing with technical knowledge only versus with our soul. Thank you..NBG
This tutorial was the BEST!!! I already have the chops to do a lot of damage with this, I just never knew the jazz formula and honestly didn't know there was one. This is MIND BLOWING!
Julian, thanks so much. I playing accordion and my greatest wish is to playing jazz on the accordion. You give me such great advices, to start!
Amazing tutorial. Probably the best 20 minutes I've ever spent on RUclips !
Jazz explained entirely is what I know of this lesson. It just need practice and ear training. Thank you very much
Thank you for this very complete tutorial on Improvisation. You break down the theory and simplify it, making improvisation easy ro learn.
Thank you so much Suzanna! That means a lot, I'm so glad this lesson helped you.
Do you have any future lesson requests?
@@jazztutorial Hi, Yes, I would like to request a Neo Jazz chord / funky jazz tutorial if there's any chance, please. Thans for asking Julian. I love all your tutorials and I appreciate them more than I can say.
Your videos are very educative and helpful! Thank you for the effort you put into this video and thank you for all your valuable information
All these exercises are absolutely phantastic: easy to understand and it sounds so good and really professonal. I can't wait to practise tomorrow. Thank you, Julian, so much and best wishes to you for the new year!
I don't play, but I'm scratching the surface of theory and even though it's what Bill Evans would call approximating, it really bangs my pan and gives me a better ear for listening. This is a fabulous lesson. You extoll the same wisdom Bill Evans extolled; approach the thing simply - no matter how fundamentally - but absolutely accurate and true. And you must embrace, even love the process, so that you will have something you can build on. I used the same approach with my haircutting students. The principal is the same regardless of the artform. You will have learners who embrace it and you will always have learners who want to race ahead and skip it. But for those who do take the time to learn how to walk the benefit is well worth the slower pace. A terrific and inspiring lesson you've given.Thanks!
Hi Julian. It's always a pleasure to see your videos, extremely clear! You created my bases when I started to learn the piano 4/5 years ago. Many thanks, have a nice sunday!
Absolutely brilliant! Really excellent instruction. Thank you SO much for taking the time and energy to put these lessons together. I really truly appreciate your instructional style. Cheers!
Your tutorial videos are the best I have ever seen. 👍🏻😂👌🏻😁
Gracias querido!!
OMG! This is so far the best and easiest tutorial for piano improvisation I found online. Thank you so much! ❤
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FREE MATERIAL.
Me encanta la explicación, a pesar de que no hablo perfectamente Inglés.
I like your videos. You are a great teacher
I just learned how to form the extended harmony from the natural key and learned and understood Jazz Thank you very much.
Wonderful teaching. I'm brand new to jazz but desperately want to learn. Your calm style and well explained lesson makes my fingers itch to be up and "at it". Thank you 😁