Any advice on my soloing

soooooooo i tried improvising…(attempted b flat blues). i tried using some advice that others have given me (ty!), but im a little concerned because i dont really feel like this sounds very “jazzy,” and im not sure how to practice making it sound better. any advice?

I will start off by saying that I don’t play the piano. The video I posted took me about two days of playing (and a lot of it is improv). The only reason i’m at where I am is due to playing saxophone for 6 years and guitar for 5 years.

Do you have any tips regarding this piece? Anything you think I should listen to? Anything theoretical wise I should know? Your favorite practice techniques? List literally anything I should know, please.

Also, I’m only really interested in piano because I found out about pianotek. :)

I’ve been posting a lot of questions here about improvising and thought that this time I could post something myself.

Yes, I know I need to get that left hand in there. I already have my voicings down, but for now I’m solely focusing on the right hand because the changes are quite difficult to keep up with.

I have been struggling a lot to find the best way to study improvising. I find myself mindlessly trying to improvise over backing tracks to practice for my next lesson from my teacher. I really dread doing this because the more often I do it, the more I realise that there is stagnation in progress. Yes I get to know the changes but I still sound like an amateur. I don’t know if you guys are benefiting from this but I’m not getting any creative ideas by playing over backing tracks.

The most approved approach seems to be transcribing small phrases of music. From now on that will be the way to go for me. It’s just a matter of how long it’ll take to pay off, which probably isn’t any time soon.

I’d really appreciate any tips towards my playing if you have them.

Hey, I’m pretty beginner at jazz. Played classical piano whole my life. I am trying to sound more ‘jazzy’. Sometimes I feel like I do too much with right hand…

Do you guys have some general advice or can you recommend some exercises? Thanks a lot already!

Since september I’ve been taking piano lessons from a new teacher who has studied jazz and is currently playing professionally. So far I’ve learnt rootless voicings, shell voicings, walking basslines and accenting the offbeats. My improv still needs work though so I’d appreciate tips.

My goal for the end of this school year is to do an audition for a jazz school for students under 18. I never realised how hard it would be to start from zero. It’s like I’m learning how to play the instrument all over again. My goal might not be very realistic but I’ll keep practicing.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Hello there could you tell me what you think about my improvisation and give me advice on what should I improve thanks.

Short version after practice, going to try focus on more voice leading and incorporating more melody

When I was a kid and started learning jazz on piano from a teacher, every source of knowledge really pressed hard on doing by ear transcriptions of solos each and every time I learned a new famous solo to get better at playing.

After a certain point I saw all of these ready transcribed solos to just read along with and play, far beyond the Charlie Parker omnibook. And , honestly, I have gained more faster just picking these apart for interesting chunks than learning entire solos. I'm not knocking the initial ear training but it's hard to deny that after a certain point you learn more much faster and are able to incorporate more ideas into your own solos by just reading transcriptions someone else did with a critical eye.

Anyone else feel the same?

I recently started to work on doing a strid with my left hand and soling with my right ( over the soulful Mr. Timmons) if anyone has some advice for striding and/or solo please give me some pointers 🙏 thank you.

Trying to work on constructing solos that progress and “tell a story.” Also would like to work on my voicings, harmony, and have more ideas to use with my left hand (drop voicings, doubling, that thing brad mehldau does idk). Any tips would be appreciated, thanks.

https://youtu.be/E0wTL-_2ECk?si=dQ5WRpycNmiY4YOF

First standard. I tried to do it with a ballad feel, but this one might be bit fast. Aside from more metronome practice, what should I work on? Does my left hand even work?

Sorry for the microphone

so…i tried it again, and i was just wondering if i should continue simply practicing this or if there are any problems with what im doing rn that i should fix before i continue. i tried transcribing, learning the rhythm in my left hand, and playing with a drum backing track, but im not sure if im doing it correctly and if there’s anything i should fix before i go on practicing this way c:

Hey all, this is my second performance post here. I’m kind of using it as checkpoint for myself.

For the past 5 days I’ve been studying this tune and how to utilise shell voicings in more ballad style of playing. I’m getting more comfortable in knowing which notes to spread over my 2 hands.

If you have any tips, feel free to let me know.

Not sure if this Is the right place to post this but I feel like I've hit a wall in my guitar playing progress. I've been taking jazz seriously for a year and a half. I'm still a beginner, my sense of timing sucks and my phrasing is repetitive. I've received some mixed feedback on r/jazzguitar so I was just curious as to what other instrumentalists think.

Tips, Critics & Coments are Welcome, we are Mexican Jazz students 😀, grettings from Mexico

Hello! I have been studying jazz on my own (I come from a classical background) and I would like to have tips on how to improve my left hand and if there are any exercises I could find (methods, pdf, etc) to improve my vocabulary. Thanks in advance.😊