This Jazz Solo Lesson is for you if all the lines in your solos are just a sequence of “now I am playing an arpeggio” then “a bit of scale”. That is of course not that exciting to listen to. There is more to jazz lines and jazz melodies than just trying to put arpeggios and scales next to each other.
In this video, I am going to show you some of the ways that you can make more interesting melodies in your solos. It is all about surprising to the listener without just being weird and hard to understand.
In hindsight, this is a lesson I really wish I had when I was starting to learn Jazz and wanted to play better lines in my solos.
Content:
0:00 Intro – Less boring and predictable Lines in Your solos
0:57 #1 Breaking up Scale melodies – Adding a lower chord tone.
2:05 Example 2
2:52 #2 Breaking up Scale melodies – Chromaticism & Chord Tones
3:56 #3 Breaking up Scale Melodies – I can fit an entire arpeggio in here!
5:34 Example 2
6:10 #4 Benson’s Top-note melodies
7:37 Simpler Example
8:24 #5 Pedal Point Strategies
9:13 II V I Example
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