Thinking Ahead No.1 – mDecks Music
Learn a practical ‘thinking ahead’ improvisation exercise using rhythmic word #3 applied to Blues For Alice to target upcoming chord tones and connect arpeggios smoothly.
This lesson teaches a concrete approach to improvising by anticipating target chords: use a two-note chromatic pickup to the next chord’s third, play the current chord’s 7th arpeggio in root position as a four-note grouping, then resolve to chord tones of the following harmony. The exercise is demonstrated over the Blues For Alice progression with call-and-response backing tracks at two speeds and includes a PDF with the written exercise and a QR code linking to the video. Practice focuses on connecting harmonic targets with rhythmically consistent lines and developing the habit of playing lines by thinking ahead through the progression.
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