Hello there! Hello dear students! This is Edward Wise and in this lesson, I’m going to show you how to improvise in a time exercise format. And the beauty of this as you’ll soon see is that, when you time yourself and you have a certain set of limitations to play with, it freeze you up to focus in the present and express yourself without censorship or self-censorship which is where a lot of students do sometime is that they’ll start playing and they’ll start thinking about what to play next which immediately breaks the connection between your fingers and what you really want to say or express.
So today then, we’re going to be doing it timed piano improvisation exercises between three to five minutes. I chose a range because it’s probably better in that way. I don’t want to say exactly three or exactly five, but it’s a short thing. You’ll be using three chords FM7, start in open decision. EM7, and DM7, excuse me. We’re going to be using the scale F Lydian which is all in the white keys [Demonstration]
The F Lydian sound is actually a bright sound. It’s a major sound and how we get this is we just—this is F major, F major scale [Demonstration]
F Lydian sharps the fourth note to slow. So instead of playing this, you just play this. And believe it or not, the sound is a lot different from you do it that way. I know one note, it shouldn’t really make that much of a difference, but it doses really—it changes the flavor of the scale. It gives you a different sound. And I chose it because it’s easy. It’s all on the white keys itself.
What I’m going to do, is I’m going to do the time piano myself, I have no idea of what I’m going to play. I’m just going to use the three chords I mentioned and I have a watch here see. It’s almost quarter after one and I’m going to start when it goes to quarter after. Actually, I’m going to start in 10 seconds here. So, I’m going to start with an open position chords and then I can change to whatever else I want to, okay. [Demonstration]
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