Improv Games for One Player

By Jeffrey Agrell

Table of Contents
Warm-Up Games
Warm-Up Interval Piece

Rhythm Games
Offbeat Metronome
Poet Lariat
Swing It
Transformation

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1
2
2

Accent Games
Scale Accents

Melody Games
Step/Skip the Pentatonic 24
Rainbow Scales
Far Out
How Dry I Am Melodies
Fourth Beginning

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3
3
3
3

Harmony Games
Familiar Tune
Minor Attraction
Key Switch
Key Switch Familiar Tune
Glassy Arpeggios

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4
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6

Aural Games
Play It Again, Sam

Technique Games
Fanfare
Change That Etude

7
7

Style Games
Dirge

Variation City
Holiday Time
Texture Games
Motorvation
Miscellaneous Games
Daily Arkady
Chord Hopping
Duet for One
Duet for One Revisited
Intervals
Sequences
Drifting
Make Over
Suggesting Harmony
Two Five
Two Five One
Transposition map
Something Blue
Daily Cadenza
Outside the Pent-box
Substitution
Circling the Fifths
Scrambled Keys
Up and Down Sequences
Arpeggio Progression
Connect the Dots
Arpeggio Alternation
Resources
Patterns & Scales
Familiar Tunes
Styles and Forms

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