3 Improvisation Exercises For All Levels

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26 күн бұрын

Welcome to the London Contemporary School of Piano! In this video, Tom Donald will guide you through 3 improvisation exercises for all levels that will transform your piano playing. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced pianist, these piano improvisation exercises are designed to enhance your improvisation skills and creativity at the piano.
We will provide guidance on how to improvise on piano and how to practice improvisation effectively. These are the best exercises to improve your piano improvisation skills, ensuring that you can confidently express yourself on the piano.
Practice this every single day to see significant improvement in your piano playing. Whether you're focusing on piano improvisation practice, developing new piano practice techniques, or mastering essential piano exercises, this video has something for you.
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@contemporaryschoolofpiano 25 күн бұрын

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@feg9417 23 күн бұрын

Thanks to Philipp Glass for the exemple #2 ….😮

@contemporaryschoolofpiano 23 күн бұрын

@@feg9417 It's definitely got those Glass vibes!

@frunobonini 15 күн бұрын

Your lessons are not only piano lessons, they're music lessons and life lessons. Thank you for that!

@pds002 21 күн бұрын

I enjoyed this immensely and learned so much. Even at my beginner level, I never feel truly relaxed and free unless simply improvising and allowing a free flow of creativity and expression. This video was a reminder. Letting us know that your left hand had slipped, that this happens to the best, and how to respond, completely disintegrated any teacher/pupil barrier and created trust and a bonding. Thank you.

@benc5324 18 күн бұрын

That last third of this video with that left hand pattern and the right oxtaves was fantastic

@richardblocher599 25 күн бұрын

This young man is very much down to earth. The Best Advice ever. We all tend to make things difficult, with rules, and regulations. This tends to take the pleasure of learning music out of the picture. (Open your hearts and Minds.)

@nancydoyle9801 15 күн бұрын

so very encouraging ! thank you. love your open, generous work!

@alongkornchutinan6524 11 күн бұрын

Your teaching are so intuitive. This video is really eye-opening and changes my view about improvization.❤

@chazzitz-wh4ly 20 күн бұрын

Messed around with a piano over the years, but learned major chords the other day and have been practicing those as a base to build my learning. I found someone who was able to tell me them in a way a musically illiterate person can know and i prove with them whenever I practice. It makes learning and practice fun removing the rigidity out of the tedium.

@msgingerjourney 25 күн бұрын

Yep, so many piano students, like me, are stuck reading the page. I'm working my way away from that. It's fun moving around the chords. Thank you for this video🎉

@Mike-rw2nh 25 күн бұрын

Hope you don’t mind a piano curious guitarist offering unsolicited suggestions? One of the most fascinating improv practice routines I enjoy is to play a chord progression or focus on a new spicy chord on loop and simply hum/sing syllables over it. So much fun and a fantastic method for forging that connection between what you can hear in your head and your fingertips. Hope it’s some use to you.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano 25 күн бұрын

@@Mike-rw2nh that's a great tip Mike. What progressions do you like to practice?

@Mike-rw2nh 24 күн бұрын

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano I have to confess, I cribbed this idea wholesale from Aimee Nolté Piano some time back. Over time it has seeped into my improv. As for specific chord progressions, I initially focused on anything that follows the circle of 5ths. ‘Hey Joe’ for example, and fleshed out simple triads with a very intuitive approach to singing/ humming. Recently I’ve taken to experimenting with triad pairs, whereby, I play one triad harmonically and sing arpeggios from the other over the top. Thanks for the content by the way. 👍

@Mike-rw2nh 24 күн бұрын

@@dixieworkerDo give it a go. I’ve even tried this with non musicians whereby they make up a ditty over one chord. They’ve all taken to it. It’s also amazing listening to them intuitively develop a motif and then effortlessly modify it when I change to another chord. I’ll be playing like this until I push up daisies. Warning! It’s a very easy way to become lost in your practice for hours. Happy practicing. 👍

@andrewwatts2695 19 күн бұрын

Brilliant ways letting yourself go 🎹 🎶🎵

@gabrijeltravel 24 күн бұрын

Dear Tom Donald, I am more than glad that you are sharing your music and piano knowledge with us. You enabled me to elevate my understanding of playing the piano and I wanna thank your for that! Excellent video again!

@stephengilbert5612 25 күн бұрын

I love improvisation. I jam therefore i am. Musicality and artistic sensitivity enables us to express the language, imo.

@georgemaloney6155 20 күн бұрын

Great motivating class. Helps to "loosen us up" on the keyboard. Thanks

@AH-ps9pt 23 күн бұрын

Brilliant! Eye opening tutorial! Thank you!

@beonlife3283 25 күн бұрын

Glad you spoke about the importance of creative expression. Great ideas btw!🌟

@magalygouveia4454 17 күн бұрын

Excellent video... I am really enjoying all the content.!! Can you tell me please where to find more information about the groove course from inside? Thanks

@contemporaryschoolofpiano 17 күн бұрын

Many thanks. Much appreciated. You'll find more information on the Groove course in the video description.

@jono_young_music 25 күн бұрын

Man, thank you! This is fantastic. I do not read music and am self taught, but i come here occasionally when my playing gets stale and repetitive. You’re approach to the instrument is really refreshing. Thank you, got me out of a musical rut 👍

@talandis 24 күн бұрын

Thanks for another "piano meditation" video! I love this "series" and hope you do more from time to time. They really help me relax at the keyboard and connect to my creative side. I feel like I'm able to develop my technique as well. This type of improv practice works at so many levels. Speaking of levels, I enjoyed the variety of techniques you presented here. You make a good point in that you don't need to have super complex stuff going on in order to enjoy a satisfying musical experience. As for me, the big challenge is to not getting ahead of myself. I'm still in my first year of playing after a long absence, so while my mind and heart want to zoom across the keys to play melodies I hear in my soul, my fingers just can't keep up. So, there is always this tension between what I want to do and what I actually CAN do. Showing how simplicity can be an end to itself is a great antidote to this predicament. I can enjoy being right where I am, then gradually, over time and consistent practice, naturally evolve and grow in complexity and sophistication.

@FloydSmithjrTheattitude 20 күн бұрын

Thanks, just when I thought I was making progress you throw this at me😅 Kidding aside, this is great stuff. Im working the g minor progression, very slowly, playing the scale straight up and down on the beat. My problem at this point, I can play each chord with the scale at a good tempo but when I try to put all 3 chords together smoothly it blows up. Its like my brain is 2 people who refuse to get along with each other. I don’t know if it’s add, ptsd or the cia but Im having a helluva time trying to synchronize both sides of my brain.

@charlenemisuraca3473 19 күн бұрын

lol

@FloydSmithjrTheattitude 19 күн бұрын

@@charlenemisuraca3473 I realized t Im so rookie, I have to look at both hands while I’m playing, which is impossible unless you’re a fish, so I’m practicing with my eyes closed and feeling my way around the keys, and wouldn’t ya know, it’s working. 10,000 years ago, when I was in high school, there was a blind kid, blind at birth, an outstanding keyboardist. I can’t imagine what it was like for him to learn to play. There had to be someone guiding his hands at the beginning. Just speculating. In a way I think he had an advantage over the rest of us.

@carolmurphy4627 25 күн бұрын

That third one was gorgeous! Going to have to try that. Once again, Tom, thank you!

@gracekim3412 24 күн бұрын

Thank you for your professionalism and generosity❤

@kellyrichardson3665 23 күн бұрын

Thank you for this great video!

@matthewphilip1977 21 күн бұрын

I like the idea of the single note pulse. I sometimes hold down a chord and play the scale over the top of it which makes it more interesting, but the pulse idea is better. Looking forward to trying that out. Question for anyone out there. If you play a scale over the top of any of the diatonic chords of that scale, will it work, harmony-wise? So if I played through each of the diatonic chords of, say, Cmajor, holding each chord as I played the scale along with it, would that work?

@contemporaryschoolofpiano 21 күн бұрын

@matthewphilip1977 yes, in short all things diatonic work.