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EZ Soloing Lessons of Rich's Course
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Passion4Blue
9 posts
Sep 01, 2010
2:29 PM
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I am thoroughly enjoying Rich's EZ Comping lessons and have seen that by first working through the easier comping tunes starting with the Dirty Dozen Jazz Chords and moving through the lessons utilizing those chords, the transition into the harder tunes like "In A Mellow Tone", "Rhythm Changes", "All The Things You are" and "Meditation" have been so much easier to grasp.
I was wondering how many of you would think it would be a good idea for Rich to do the same from a Soloing perspective. In other words something along the lines of some EZ Soloing versions of the classic tunes he has been teaching to sort of give us some insight as to how he approaches soloing over complex changes.
I come from the Rock world of soloing and would love to have some better insights as to how Jazz players approach this. It is a true art all its own!
If anyone believes Rich may have already covered this in some of his lessons, could they please point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
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Eric E
Moderator
75 posts
Sep 02, 2010
6:52 PM
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Good question. I don't know whether Rich has used the same approach for soloing lessons yet, but he does have some easier and more difficult versions of solos on some tunes. His more recent bebop and bebop blues solo video lessons are excellent. I haven't checked out the EZ comping lessons yet though. I should check those out as well.
--Eric E
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ChrisDowning
90 posts
Nov 23, 2010
10:33 AM
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I think the big difference between jazz players and rock in my experience - jazz players seem to base their solos more of working around arpeggios and the notes that lead to the chord notes, whereas rock and blues players seem to approach solos at the start of their learning from a scales perspective. Most of my new, more experienced students turn up with a knowledge of a couple of pentatonic scales and the blues scale derivatives and then solo based on those scales. It's a big jump for them to learn arpeggios and change their approach to being chord / harmony based. Of course until they make the change they sound the same throughout the solo, whatever chord they are playing over - seems to make no difference whether its the I, IV, or the V. I'm certain this is how that bar blues player sound is born - licks around the blues scale and no cetreing around the chords as they change. Whereas jazz players seem to be more melodic and get the whole chord and scale association. Perhaps its because rock solos seem to launch out into something that's not much like the song straight off - so there really isn't a melodic content.
Last Edited by on Nov 23, 2010 10:36 AM
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