Pentatonic Improvising | Piano Pages William Wieland |
Pentatonic — 5 tones Improvising — spontaneous composing | |
Click on one of the following back-up bands and make up a melody using only the black keys on the piano. It will sound good! | |
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Share your hip rhythmic and melodic ideas with your classmates. | |
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Once you can adeptly improvise black key melodies with your right hand, master the F Sharp Major Cadence Pattern. | |
Play each chord of the cadence pattern with your left hand using a repeating rhythm. (The instructor will demonstrate.) | |
Next, improvise a black key melody with your right hand above the left hand chord pattern. Try to maintain a steady rhythm with your left hand. | |
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