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Harmonic&Motivic&Textural Tension&Resolution
Variety&Structure
You can ignore chord/melody note clashes when improvising.
Melodic Embellishments:
Approach Notes
Passing Notes
Enclosures
Trills
Turns
Mordents
Grace Notes
Fills
Changing Rhythm/Pitch
Rhythmic Displacement
Improvisational Tools:
Target Tones
Call&Response Patterns
Avoid Notes
Motivic Development of Cells and Lines
Rhythmic Continuity
Sequences
Emphasizing a Harmonic Color (e.g. 13)
Arpeggios
Runs
Cascades
(Minor Sixth Scales)
Triadic Patterns
7th Chord Sequences
Bar-Line Shift
Counterpoint
Sheets of Sounds
Playing Outside:
Cycled Patterns (Cycle 2/Cycle 3)
Side-Slipping (Half Step/Tritone)
Ambiguous (Pentatonic/Four Note/Diminished/Whole
Tone/Chromatic/Synthetic/Artificial) Scales
Modal Assignment
Chord Extension/Diminution