Lesson 2: More improvisation tools and exercises
This is second lesson of Keyboard Accompaniment Course. You need some years of piano playing experience to understand this course. You don't have to have any experience in improvising at all. This gentle and genre-free course will help you to develop you improvisational skills at piano, including improvising pieces as well as accompaniments.
This lesson is for you, if you have had some classical piano lessons or if you have ever wondered, how some people can play without reading sheet music. Where to start? What to practise? How to develope your improvisations?
This lessons give you tools to improvise easily, imitating and answering musical questions. You can also play with predescribed rhyhtm to start with you improvisations. You will have rhythmic backgrounds to support your playing. Hopefully you want to continue with the course!
This course is based on the book Keyboard Accompaniment and Improvisation, which is available in English, Chinese, German, French, Finnish and Polish. Please send your feedback to the author info(at)keyboardacc.com.
Jyrki Tenni
Creativity and improvisation are central to Jyrki Tenni’s work as a piano teacher and music educator. He has published several text books on the topic of keyboard accompaniment and is regarded as the most successful Finnish author for piano literature. While at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he developed new progressive methods for teaching piano improvisation and keyboard accompaniment. He works as a song accompanist and runs his own music school in Helsinki.
In the second lesson of the course you will learn how to play more improvisations with predescribed rhythms, imitations, questions&answers and just using a major scale,