Let’s learn to think about music-making like a composer, not like a computer…
For specific improv vocabulary in a particular genre, check out each school of music: Blues || Country || Gospel || Jazz || Rock ||
Introduction to Composition & Improvisation
- Why Study Composition & Improvisation?
- The True Nature of Composition & Improvisation
- Theory & Practice
- Creativity
- Micro-Lessons
Composition & Improvisation Etudes
Practice Tracks
- Drones, All Keys
- Any requests? (Please comment below)
A Case Study in Composition
- Lead Sheet
- What does the Lead Sheet Tell Us?
- Deep Melodic Analysis
- Form & Harmony
- Simple Chord Accompaniment
- Alberti Bass Accompaniment
- Change Register
- Change Articulation
- Change Tonality
- Shift the Melody
- Change the Meter
- Chord Tone Melody
- Scale Tone Melody
- Harmonic-Melodic Suspension
- Left Hand Melody
- Harmonize Melody in Sixths
- Subdivide Beat into Triplets
- Pedal Point
- Melodic Sequence
- Pickups
- Two-Handed Chord Melody
- Rhythmic Motives
- Add an Introduction
- Add an Ending