Free Improvisation Ideas | see more in the description

Some general, basic ideas:
- Keep playing, keep listening, and end your music when you want to end it.
- We can only play as ourselves, no right or wrong, your musical ears are the ones who decide.
- Breath and let the sound, the music, flow.
- “Wrong notes” don’t really exist, listen to it with interest, and continue from there, they can even be musically interesting.

Some specific ideas:
- Give yourself a bed of sound, a chord with long low tones work well for improvising a melody. This morning my student only used C major chord and the chord sounded very long, vibrating along with the melody.
- Create a story, for instance, in this video, ‘let the wind chime play when the wind blows’.
- When improvising a melody, realize that a melody can go lower, higher or repeat the same tone.
- A melody can have long or short tones. Listening deeply to the long tones help knowing where to go further.
- A melody can have a counter melody/ a bass line.
- Follow a certain rhythm
- Follow a certain chord progression
- Play a certain song/piece of music and let yourself get looser and change it here and there freely, as your musical taste allow you to.
- Experiment with different tones (pedal/no pedal, staccato/legato forte/piano), etc.

Free improvisation is good to practice some freedom at the piano, to try musical ideas out, to practice listening and responding.