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Question: Anyone know a good piano improvisation tutorial!?
I've been wanting to learn how to improvise on the piano for a while now, and I tried googling, but it came up with all of these books and CDs that you have to buy!. Does anyone know an online tutorial I can use, hopefully for free!? :DWww@QuestionHome@Com


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I searched on yahoo for 'piano improvisation techniques' but came up with the same results as you!. I think that it's kinda hard for people to teach improvisation since it's such a broad subject and there is no set, defined way to do it!. Sorry that I couldn't find anything for you, so I'll just post what I think is the basics for learning improvisation:

1!.) Music Theory: You have to have some sort of knowledge on chords and how to find them, chord progressions, etc!.
2!.) Rhythm: There needs to be a structure or pattern to your improvisation or else it just sounds like a bunch of random notes!.

And!.!.!. I guess that's all there is really!. Just work on the two and then figure out how to apply them together!.
There are tons of websites on music theory!. One that I like is http://www!.musictheory!.net/ For rhythm, I couldn't find many websites!. There's this website: http://www!.zebrakeys!.com/lessons/advance!.!.!. but they haven't posted the lessons yet!.

I also found this website, but I don't know if it's any good!. I just saw a bunch of videos about improvisation and was like FWEEEEEEE! ^!.^ http://www!.musilosophy!.com/

You can also try to find books at your local public library!. I usually get some pretty good books there!.

Anyways, sorry that I couldn't be of more help!. Sorry, sorry, sorry!. T!.T I probably just told you a bunch of stuff you already know, lol!.

Well, good luck on your piano improvisation endeavors!Www@QuestionHome@Com