We all have a jazz guitar solo that we really love and we dream of being able to play a solo like that. Often the advice that you get is to transcribe the solo and use that to learn to figure out what is going on, but that can also be a way for you to zoom in too much on the details. Often it isn’t that important if it is an E or and Eb, but it is much more important that he is developing a motif or only using short phrases or playing triplets in groups of 4.
In this video I am going to focus on what you can learn by listening to solos and focus on other things than what notes are being played, a lot of topics that are just as important and that we forget to talk about.
Hope you like it!
Content of the Video
0:00 Intro
0:12 The Problem with Transcribing
0:47 Focus on The Bigger Picture
1:22 How Long Are The Phrases?
1:37 John McLaughlin Vs Wes Montgomery
2:27 Using Phrase Length in Your Own Practice
2:44 What Is Happening With The Rhythm?
2:54 Pat Martino vs Herbie Hancock
3:27 Herbie going beyond the 8th note and in the groove phrasing
3:50 Intersesting ideas with 8th notes
4:00 Timing, Placement on the beat?
4:21 Is It Bebop Lines or Vocal-like Melodies?
4:50 Paul Desmond Vs. Pat Metheny
5:43 How Is The Development Of The Solo?
5:52 Mainstream Jazz and Dynamics?
6:05 Steve Vai vs Stan Getz
6:36 A Method for Solo Construction: Wes Montgomery
7:20 Is it In The Groove or Floating over it?
7:57 Joe Pass Vs Allan Holdsworth
8:31 Are The Phrases Connected, and How?
8:55 Wes Montgomery Vs Pat Martino
9:26 How Is The Soloist Using Space?
9:44 Use Space to Create Tension!
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