a good example why half-pedalling is important...

I really like this kind of simple ideas for training improvisation. Of course, if you are jazz student you need also develope also skills to improvise over more complex chord and song structures. But other side of the coin is these kind of exercises: put something quite stable in the left hand and develope something over it with right hand. Listen carefully, listen how something is ”tension” and something is ”release”.

I also like the idea that there are no wrong notes or at least you can make almost anything sound right. You can pick up for example any ”wrong” note - in Peace Piece any black key - and transform it to nice phrase. Or just play longer with dissonant notes to make tension and maybe take it back to white more consonant tones after a while. Key here is confidence, fluency and rhytmic clarity.

I am always checking new patterns like one in Peace Piece. You can quite easily transpose it to other keys or make second chord Fm6/9 or Gsus7b9 etc. etc. Chick Corea’s Children Songs provide also tons of great ideas for this kind of improvisation: nice left hand patterns and rhytmic and melodic ideas.