REMEMBER YOUR RESOLUTION
May 24, 2022
3 minutes
earning to improvise might seem daunting, but remember one simple rule: the name of the game is always resolution. Improvisation is based on nothing more than tension and release, and today we’re going to demonstrate this using a rudimentary major scale. Say you play two notes separated by a semitone: they’ll fight one another and produce tension. You can then achieve resolution by simply moving in the direction of the prevailing pitch; this usually ends up being the chord tone.
In the major scale, there are two instances of this. The
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