8 Different Ways To Add Rhythmic Variety To Improve Your Improvisation 

Brendan love your videos. I was making a video and accidentally did something new. I've been doing a lot lot of three finger motifs. This was a right handed lick. So I played a four finger arpegio.. c bb g e.. just a c7. Simple but I kid you not, my 3rd finger hit the ab , index finger followed through with f and thumb on d. I thought it was just a ab diminnished fragment.. I just finished it out with some f blues.. Then I analyzed it further and realized .. that I had done a 5 4 1 progression.. c7 bb f. Key being f. . It has a very chromatic feel to it. In fact working more with I noodled triplets on f g ab. Then played c d c f.. ending in a major pentatonic.. I like the idea of going away from a wall of notes .. less is more.. one of the greatest movie theme ever, just my opinion the the theme song for the firm, has just a few repeating motifs.. one of them is an a minor to g minor, over a unbelievably simple bass line of a an octave g with a stacato on the the d note.. there is also a repeating (fg) which is one of the most recognizable patterns in the main theme. There were a lot of open spaces in this song. I did this on guitar and it takes on a model feel..

Thank you so much for this video ! Feel like rythmic variety is the first thing a beginer improviser should be worried about

Great tutorial. This is about the ONLY video on the whole of youtube that covers this topic. This information could be used by ANY instrument - Piano, sax & guitar etc, etc,

Thx you

thank a lot! this is not for only piano player, I'm a bass player.

Awesome video! The material for podcast isn’t loading up however

Do you think rythm variety is the first thing do work on, before modes, subs etc... ? I feel like if I play simple harmonic vocabulary with a strong rythmic sens it will sound great. Strong harmonic content but played with a weak sens of rythm would sound like shit. Do you agree ?

That “tch “-ing thing is just so awful