Comments on: Planning, Structuring and Writing out your Jazz Guitar Solos http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/ Master the Art of Jazz Guitar Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chesca's daddy http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/comment-page-1/#comment-8348 chesca's daddy Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:18:35 +0000 http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/#comment-8348 Writing or even recording solos is a great idea for anyone who plays an instrument or even, let's say, is a rap artist. Eminem did lot's of rhyme writing, writing out his ideas, which gave him more tools in his arsenal as he "battled" it out doing freestyle rap. Listen to and transpose Stevie Ray Vaughan solos both recorded and live and you will hear very similar elements and licks in different solos, with variations in tempo in many of his songs. He may not have written these out on paper (he didn't read music) but you can tell he catalogued his ideas. Same with Carlos Santana. Writing your solos helps you store memorized patterns that you can vary spontaneously during a live, improvised performance. HOW you vary a prewritten pattern on the spot leads to your new discovery. Hope that makes sense! Writing or even recording solos is a great idea for anyone who plays an instrument or even, let’s say, is a rap artist. Eminem did lot’s of rhyme writing, writing out his ideas, which gave him more tools in his arsenal as he “battled” it out doing freestyle rap. Listen to and transpose Stevie Ray Vaughan solos both recorded and live and you will hear very similar elements and licks in different solos, with variations in tempo in many of his songs. He may not have written these out on paper (he didn’t read music) but you can tell he catalogued his ideas. Same with Carlos Santana. Writing your solos helps you store memorized patterns that you can vary spontaneously during a live, improvised performance. HOW you vary a prewritten pattern on the spot leads to your new discovery. Hope that makes sense!

]]> By: Paul McGovern http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/comment-page-1/#comment-7780 Paul McGovern Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:39:35 +0000 http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/#comment-7780 "You actually improve your soloing by purposely limiting yourself and the possibilities when you practice." GREAT line!... GREAT advice! AND playing less really helps you to define yourself... get to the 'distilled YOU' (playing the licks/sounds that YOU like)... and develop your own individuality. Isn't that what guys like Miles, Maceo, Jr. Walker, Coltrane, Albert King, David Sandborn, Lage Lund, Chuck Loeb did/do?!... all individual sounds. “You actually improve your soloing by purposely limiting yourself and the possibilities when you practice.”

GREAT line!… GREAT advice!
AND playing less really helps you to define yourself… get to the ‘distilled YOU’ (playing the licks/sounds that YOU like)… and develop your own individuality.
Isn’t that what guys like Miles, Maceo, Jr. Walker, Coltrane, Albert King, David Sandborn, Lage Lund, Chuck Loeb did/do?!… all individual sounds.

]]> By: Gerald http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/comment-page-1/#comment-5511 Gerald Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:53:11 +0000 http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/#comment-5511 Thanks for the info: i too love the smooth playing of guitarist Calvin Keys. I have been playing for over 30 years and it's still good to get over there to learn a few things. You can play for 100 years and still learn a lick or two. Just learn of your web and want to see and hear it all.... Thanks for the info: i too love the smooth playing of guitarist Calvin Keys. I have been playing for over 30 years and it’s still good to get over there to learn a few things. You can play for 100 years and still learn a lick or two. Just learn of your web and want to see and hear it all….

]]> By: ollie http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/comment-page-1/#comment-5368 ollie Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:48:08 +0000 http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/#comment-5368 Great post.I saw a youtube video once on creating lines.The pros do have their own licks already prepared and thats how all the great players tend to rattle of licks without thinking-its been rehearsed before.To improvise impromptu we need to have the vocabulary-the speech example analogy is clear cut.Just as with speaking-we learn a word a day and slowly learn a sentence or phrase.When we have enough vocabulary that same sentence can be rephrased out with different words but with same meaning-that's improvisation Great post.I saw a youtube video once on creating lines.The pros do have their own licks already prepared and thats how all the great players tend to rattle of licks without thinking-its been rehearsed before.To improvise impromptu we need to have the vocabulary-the speech example analogy is clear cut.Just as with speaking-we learn a word a day and slowly learn a sentence or phrase.When we have enough vocabulary that same sentence can be rephrased out with different words but with same meaning-that’s improvisation

]]> By: jgman http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/comment-page-1/#comment-5367 jgman Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:00:38 +0000 http://www.learnjazzguitar.com/2010/01/27/planning-structuring-and-writing-out-your-jazz-guitar-solos/#comment-5367 You can tell most of the greats have done this when you listen to multiple takes on recordings. Their solos on these takes have similarities that obviously come from using such an approach. For anyone who thinks this approach is too rigid, you can try just planning out every other measure, or the first two measures of four bar phrase sections, playing freely in the unplanned measure(s), as a call and response type variation. Using this modified approach will assure you that you are still working on developing your creativity, without forsaking vocabulary and coherence. You can tell most of the greats have done this when you listen to multiple takes on recordings. Their solos on these takes have similarities that obviously come from using such an approach.

For anyone who thinks this approach is too rigid, you can try just planning out every other measure, or the first two measures of four bar phrase sections, playing freely in the unplanned measure(s), as a call and response type variation.

Using this modified approach will assure you that you are still working on developing your creativity, without forsaking vocabulary and coherence.

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