| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: my melodies don't sound jazzy | |
| Ger001 -- 08/21/2006, 05:15:32 -- #29403 | |
| Hi you all out there, I'm playing piono for ~1,5 years (I take lessons). Jazz piano is a thing I'm doing for my own because my teacher isn't really fit at this style like often teachers at the normal music schools are here in Germany. So now my problem: I can't bring my melodies to sound like jazz in my mind I have so many cool jazz patterns but I can't bring that on the piano. I try to sing and then fit my sung melody with the piano but that destroys my idea of melodie an it gets more classical than jazzy. Only when I use the blues scale it sounds jazzy but playing blues scale only is boring. Playing jazz standars from leadsheets also sound jazzy but this all doesn't help me to sound jazzy when I'm improvising freely. Are there any special intervals or something else wich make music to sound like jazz? Or is it just only that I practice less and the sound comes with practice? OK thank you for reading this long post, I hope you'll have any helpful tips. | |
| BlackWhiteKey -- 09/26/2006, 18:25:36 -- #29403 | |
| hey, i've been on piano for about 10 years, and i have a couple suggestions. first listen, listen, listen to great jazz pianists like bill evans, oscar peterson, herbie hancock, and chick corea. listen. that's the first step. second step, try to play a swing style on the piano(short, LONG, short LONG).in any melody. third, if you aren't comfortable with improvising jazz, improvise classical. or just plain improvise. everyday, i part of my practice routine is to make sumthing completley out of space. all from scratch. it'll help. and make sure when you improvise blues, you keep flat seventh. | |
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