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Improvising over the changes is how I approached this solo piano rubato intro. When improvising over the changes rubato-style, you don't have to restrict yourself to the original # of beats or bars per chord. Instead, let your ideas dictate you.

Check out the textures used:
1) Bell Tone: high octave
2) LH Broken Patterns: Even though this is "out of time" we can still establish a pulse with an active LH. Some common patterns are 1-5-10 (i.e. over Ami7) or breaking up the shell (i.e. 1-7-10 over F#mi7b5)
3) Chordal Movements: i.e. B7sus-B7b9 or D#dim7-Emi7
4) RH Colors: 1 tone added underneath the top line
5) Sweeping Texture: LH Climbs and then meets the RH on a final chord (i.e. A7 climbs to Ami7
6) Tremelo: this is a nice texture to use, but the ultimate question is how can you transition out of it?
7) Run: here we transition out of the tremolo with a scalar run
**PRO TIP: lead your runs into the next chord (and land with a low LH octave)
8) Arpeggiation: again, try to lead your arpeggiations into the next chord (i.e. D7sus arpeggiation into D7b9 chord)

Then we transition into another intro to establish the tempo and feel of the tune. I often like to do this after a rubato intro because otherwise the start of the head will feel abrupt. So the rubato intro is essentially the "intro within the intro”.

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