BookatlasPiano Rabbit Hole: Improvisation Theory & Practice
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97.3First principle

Improvisation is partly predictive hearing.

You do not need to know every future note.

But you should increasingly know:

  • direction
  • destination
  • likely bass
  • phrase shape
  • harmonic tension level

before your fingers arrive there.