My First Improvisation

[elainemusic369]

I've never taken any improv classes but thought it would be a good idea to do this video!

https://youtu.be/TS1PlKTQIdg

[ted]

If that is really the first time you have tried it, you are doing very well, and I think it would be a good idea to do much more of it. I can detect a greater degree of natural ease and flow than in the pieces you have posted. Of course, in improvisation, you are not restricted to playing in notational rhythms, because what you play has no requirement to be written out; neither do you have to remain within the style of your pieces unless you choose to. Start from complete freedom and work towards an order of your own making.

Just allocate a certain time to pure improvisation each day, build up your keyboard vocabulary (chords, scales and other patterns), and do plenty of listening. I don't know that classes in improvisation have ever worked very well anyway; one on one lessons with a good improviser, if you can find one, are better.

Improvisation isn't like learning pieces, where you achieve something and then stop. It is a continuous, lifelong process, and you never reach the end of it. I can assure you, however, than if you persist with it, it will reward you greatly in later life, possibly more than any other musical activity.

[dcstudio]

Hey that was great! You are a natural at improv and I can't wait to hear you play more. You have major potential... I would venture to guess that you have actually been improvising for a while but you called it something else....this is a more complete thought and something  you felt worthy of the title "improvisation" 
Either way that was very comfortable for you and that is something very special in the piano world. I like how easily you did that. You will soon begin to branch out of what is easy for you...that's when things really start to "cook."

Nice playing!

[elainemusic369]

Hey that was great! You are a natural at improv and I can't wait to hear you play more. You have major potential... I would venture to guess that you have actually been improvising for a while but you called it something else....this is a more complete thought and something  you felt worthy of the title "improvisation" 
Either way that was very comfortable for you and that is something very special in the piano world. I like how easily you did that. You will soon begin to branch out of what is easy for you...that's when things really start to "cook."

Nice playing!

Thank you for commenting! Yeah, this isn't my first improvisation but what I meant was this is the first video I took of me playing improv . Should have put a better title.