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3 ways to Solo over Chord Changes – Important Jazz Strategies

You want to Solo over Chord Changes and still play melodies that makes sense. This can be extremely difficult in the beginning. Most of us quickly realize that it is not just about hitting the right notes, it is also about the melodies that we make with those notes.

In this video I am going to go over some different strategies for making melodies over chord changes that I think you should work on and get into your playing. They will help you be much more free when you are soloing and also give you ways to practice playing over chord changes and still sound play a melodic solo.

Solo Over Chord Changes

Table of Contents

0:00 Intro – Solo Over Chord Changes

0:09 Playing Over Chords and sounding Melodic

0:29 The Three Strategies

1:20 #1 Transposing Motifs – What it is, What it helps you do

2:05 The Cliché example of this

2:28 How It Is Used In Compositions

3:00 What Transposing Motifs does not do

3:26 #2 Target Notes – How It Works and adds Forward Motion

3:54 Choosing Target Notes

4:13 Example of Line Using Target Notes

4:48 Another Set of Target Notes for the dominant

5:24 Pros and Cons of Target Notes

6:06 #3 Melodic Voice-Leading

6:51 A Basic example on a II V I

7:41 How To Practice and Use Melodic Voice-Leading

8:41 Two Examples of how it can work in a II V I line

9:33 All Three Techniques Are Useful

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How To Solo Over Fast Moving Chord Changes – Jazz Guitar

It is difficult to Solo Over Chord Changes, and especially if you are also playing a song with a lot of chord changes and a high tempo.

In this video I am going to discuss 4 things to keep in mind and how to practice so that you get better at improvising over chord changes. These are all important things that you need if you want to know how to solo over chord changes and play more difficult songs like Rhythm Changes, Giant Steps, Very Early etc.

Table Of Contents

0:00 Intro – Improvising over Fast Chord Changes

0:42 Splitting it up into smaller goals or topics

1:15 #1 – Technique

1:48 The Double Time Mistake

2:09 Practice Technique towards playing fast

3:02 #2 Know The Song Extremely Well

3:43 Checking if you do and working out the problems

3:56 #3 The Right Way To Practice

4:20 The right Tempo and the right type of playing

5:19 #4 Think Ahead

5:49 A Solid Method to work with this: Target Notes

6:21 Other Approaches to Train Thinking Ahead

7:09 Want to learn Giant Steps?

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The Best Practice Tempo for Soloing and Improvising on the Guitar and why

Practice tempo is very important when it comes to how fast you will learn to play a difficult phrase or solo over a chord progression. A huge part of the time we spend on music is practice. So it’s important that you consider how you can do this in the most effective way.
 
In this video I will go over some of the things that you need to think about when you are practicing improvising over a progression and especially some thoughts on the tempo you play in.

Content of the video

0:00 Intro – Practice Tempo
 
0:36 The F major turnaround with altered dom7th chords
 
1:22 How to build material on a new chord progressions
 
1:40 Methods and things to consider for this stage of learning
 
2:09 Demonstrating this way of practice and how to think about it
 
2:55 No tempo is also a practice tempo
 
3:08 Goals for this way of practicing
 
3:44 Practicing in time – guidelines for choosing a tempo
 
4:14 The best practice tempo and how it feels to play in that tempo
 
5:05 The importance of knowing what you are working on and choosing the tempo that fits it
 
5:42 Do you have great exercises for learning to improvise over difficult progressions
 
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