A Music Lesson in Easy Improvisation

Here is a lesson in creative improvisation in only 4 steps:

1. Play the notes of a G7 chord as an arpeggio - G B D F
2. Precede each chord tone with a semitone (half step) from below - F# G, A# B, C# D, E F
3. Use any combination of the two-note groups (approach note plus chord tone) making sure, however, that you always end on a chord tone (G B D or F)
4. Be creative with your rhythms and choices of register.

The great thing about this approach is that you don't even have to know the note names of the chords you are improvising over. Nor do you have to know the names of the approach notes. And you will be using eight notes out of twelve possible notes (of the chromatic scale) for your creations. All you initially need to learn are the arpeggio shapes.

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