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I have always wanted to learn to improvise. I don't really care which genre of music I learn to improvise in, but I want to learn some improv skills. Baroque and Romantic are probably my favorites, but Jazz and Classical are also nice. There are also some random 20th-Century pieces that really knock my socks off. I could happily learn to improvise in any of those genres. I noodle around a little on my piano, but my regular practice takes much of my playing time. As a result, making things up on the fly only gets a few minutes a day. Much of my improvisation is based on some mistake I made during my warm-ups. My mistakes are much more interesting than the exercises. When I play an off note in the midst of my Hanon or Philipp, I will usually play around and see what I can make of it. The results are often satisfying, but none of these pieces is much more than a little ditty, and they typically lack organization. I want to get better at this. I stumbled across a mention of part...