Soloing/improv

sauer · Veteran Member Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 210

I am trying to learn soloing over chord progression, but i just can't seem to get it, is there some way someone could explain it or something i can do to learn this better?

ConnArtist · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject:

I'm sure others will chime in, but I know Chase Sanborn can explain it much better than I could ever hope to:

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Juergen · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

Figure out which notes fit into which chords and focus on those. Once you are comfortable with the 1-3-5 start adding 7th and after you are good with that you can really start playing around with cool chors. Not that you can't have cool solos with 1-3-5.

That's what I try to do but I'm not that great.
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jazz_trpt · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:32 am Post subject:

Go to the sticky thread at the top of this forum called "Key Jazz Forum Threads" and click on the first link. Read the whole thread. Lots of useful information.

Briefly - the trick to playing good jazz is (a) hearing a good solo in your head, and (b) being able to play adequately by ear so that you can play what you hear. Simple. Not easy.

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