How to Improvise on the Piano | Keyboard Lessons

Useful tips and techniques that will help you improvise on the piano/keyboard.

When you begin learning to play the keyboards/piano, most of the time, you play from a written piece of music; you play the right and left hand note-by-note.

Improvisation is introducing variation in your playing, especially with the left hand, which is used for accompanying the right hand (melody notes), although as you become better at it you can improvise using both the hands.

Improvisation is a nice way to provide some rhythmic movement to your piano solo.

Here are some videos that show you how to improvise on the keyboard.

Its important that you keep things simpler in the beginning, and not over complicate things.

This video shows several techniques – playing inversions, octaves, and more. He talks about a lot of things including transformed chords (suspended chords in this case), some of which may not make sense to a beginner. But you can see, what he’s doing on the keyboard and that should give you can idea about how improvisation works.

This videos shows how performers begin, take it to a peak, and then bring it back.