Piano Improvisation

Guidelines to piano improvisation....could I talk all day about this? Probably! While I basically agree with the first comment, I would add that many progressions, as they are called, are more pleasing than others. To preface this, I am a BM piano major, and would love to help you with this! But let's see...a musical progression is a set of chords that lead from one place to another. When you say spreading of chords in a 1-5-1-3-5, do you mean like actually chords or just notes. Because 1 (or I) could mean a C chord (in the key of C), which would be the notes C E G and 5 (V) would be notes G B D. A nice, basic progression might be something like this: I - iii - vi - ii - V - V7 - I But I do not know if you know the meaning of that or not, yappyjc, and I don't mean to confuse you! Another way to think of it would be this (in the key of C) C Major - E minor - A minor - D minor - G Major - G Major Diatonic Seventh (add an F) - C Major I got tons more, but I want to make sure you understand it first! Good luck!

There are no guidelines in music. Play with your hearts content. Some people are so good they can improvise at first glance from the sheet music. Like Kyle Landry. Have you heard of him?