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More Techniques and Exercises for Improvisation

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Learning to improvise
How to Improvise—Part 1
How to Improvise—Part 2
How to Improvise—Part 3
Exercises for Improvisation
Find Your Sound
Colors of C Major
Get to Know C Major
Chord Choices of C Major
Heartbeat Rhythm
Heartbeat Rhythm Etude with small intervals
Heartbeat Rhythm Etude with large intervals
Ostinato Exercises—Part 1
Working on one hand
Ostinato Exercises—Part 2
Ostinato Exercises—Part 3
Musical Sandwich
Musical Sandwich Etudes
Right Hand Independence
More exercises to build creativity
Left-Hand Patterns: Suspensions
Left-Hand Patterns: Suspensions with Large Intervals
Wonder Thumb
Drones
Creative Practice Techniques
Improvising with arpeggios
Chord Vamps
Accompanying with Arpeggios
Triadic Exercises
4-note arpeggios
How to Play Arpeggios—Introduction
Arpeggios—Part 2
Arpeggios—Part 3
Arpeggios—Part 4
Arpeggios—Part 5

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In this course, master teachers share techniques and exercises for improvising. Learn Kim Robertson's "musical sandwich," Maeve Gilchrist's Ostinato exercises, Sunita Staneslow's arpeggio series, and more.
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