Let’s learn to think about music-making like a composer, not like a computer…
For specific improvisation grammar and vocabulary in a particular genre, check out each “school” of music: Blues || Country || Gospel || Jazz || Pop-Rock ||
Introduction to Composition & Improvisation
- Why Study Composition & Improvisation?
- The Big Picture
- Theory & Practice
- Creativity
- Composition & Improvisation: Micro-Lessons
Case Study in Composition & Improvisation
- Lead Sheet
- Reading the Lead Sheet
- Melodic Analysis
- Harmonic Analysis
- 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 6ths
- Subdivide Beat into Triplets
- Pedal Point
- Melodic Sequence
- Pickups
- Two-Handed Chord Melody
- Rhythmic Motives
- Add Introduction
- Add Ending