Keyboard Improvisation tutorial on Lullaby of Birdland

[@dry509]

So general question..getting started here. Where should I spend the most time learning...block chord style, chord melody style, open chord voicing, or ? to advance from just chords in left hand, melody in right hand? What would be the best way to progress from one level to the next? Or learn all the above depending on what sounds best with a particular tune?

[@TonyWinston]

dry509 that is hard to say since I don't know you, but first, be a competent musician, make sure you can read, play scales, memorize a few pieces, have the songs you know memorized, including memorizing the chord progressions. Then pick a style you want to work on and go for it. Standards with open voicings, stride piano, improv using the chords you already know. There's so much.... great question.

[@snador]

@@TonyWinston its so much to learn. I'd love to play like you some day, but I just started playing around 6 months ago, I can barely play some easy pieces. Kinda depressing to know it would take years to learn it all, and then probably another few years to really get good.

[@jeuxdeau2009]

Response to your question about F blues fingerings: If you want to gain a sense of "control" in the F blues scale, instead of 123 , 123 ,123, 123 Starting on F , Try 123 , 124 , 123 , 124, (Upwards) , or 124 , 123, 124, 123, coming back down , starting on F Try : 532 ,143, 132, 143, 132 , etc.. These alternate fingerings work well for me when I rotate my wrist , leaning into the motion/direction of the scale.

[@TonyWinston]

Thank You Jason! tht is a superb fingering

[@jeuxdeau2009]

Tony Winston no problem, and thanks for your superb jazz videos!

[@eilidhhaakanson4825]

This video blew my mind you explain things so well thank you!

[@sss25845]

Hey tony would you mind doing an improvisation guide/tutorial on the song strasbourg st Denis? Thanks!

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

I see that Moanin'has something important incommen with Lullaby, namely chain of dominants: Ab7 G7 C7 in a short time that make you use what you do Abblues combined or resolved in the Abmaj pent or Fblues so you want..I like also to play Fblues over Fm7 Dm7b5 than over G7 C7 just play Calt or later maybe Galt C alt...it works(idea from rythm changes...)

[@user-gi3ro9rm9k]

is it just me or am i hearing some donna lee in that improv at the beginning

[@nomennescio317]

You sound great here! I wonder what your impression is on the Fm6 vs Fm7. Some jazz players really insist that the minor chords should have the natural 6 (d natural for Fm), some like the flat 6 (db for Fm). You seem to be playing the minor 6th. Do you have any thoughts?

[@henrysampson123]

I do 1234 12 on f blues too

[@user-gi3ro9rm9k]

At the time of me commenting, the video is longer than the length of time it's been on the internet for.

[@totallyfake2852]

Hi Tony, Your level of improvisation is pretty much my goal, as a 17 year old also in ATL. I have a question that I've been wanting to ask a seasoned improviser for a while: Do you know every note you're going to play before you play it? Can you hear it in your head before you press down the keys, or do you have a "palette" of lines/notes you know will sound good without really thinking about it? Thanks so much!

[@michelmarc6004]

I made a dream : french subtitles ...