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Practicing improvisation on Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To". Mixing up improvisational techniques including Four Note Groupings, Pentatonic Scales and Upper Structure Triads/7th chords.

Hey guys, I hope All The Things is still TOTM. Here are a few choruses on All The Things using chord tones. I think it's important to be able to improvise with strictly chord tones and try to make it sound as musical as possible. It's not easy since all of the notes are stable notes, but only using chord tones allows us to focus on other issues like smoothly making the connection from chord to chord, use of motives, time feel, experimenting with various rhythms, starting phrases in different places in the measure, beginning a phrase on an upbeat vs.

This etude is based on the harmony of All the things you are. The idea is to play a basic structure of the chord (most of the time 3-7) with the Left Hand while the Right Hand is playing broken chords using some extensions of the chords or an upper structure triad. There's also a challenging rhythmic displacement (triplet on right hand against Left hand)

If you have some question feel free to contact me: giovanniperin87@gmail.com

Have fun

Giovanni Perin

Two choruses of My One and Only Love with chord changes from Chick Corea. More solo piano videos (Over The Rainbow, Danny Boy and Tennessee Waltz) at Ed Saindon Piano channel on YT. Also, clips are up on Ed Saindon Piano page on FB. You can subscribe to the YT channel or "like" the FB page to be informed of future clips.