Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles

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Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles

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About this course

Welcome to Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles for late intermediate to advanced students of Jazz guitar.

This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Pat Martino, Larry Carlton, Sheryl Bailey, Mimi Fox, and Fareed Haque.

The Advanced Soloing Principles curriculum is comprised of select Jazz guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

The ability to improvise freely, and creatively, over any given groove or changes is one of the key skills that distinguishes the advanced and pro player. The insight and performance studies in this core course will advance your technical, creative, and improvisational skills. Learn the soloing examples note-for-note and then use the ideas and technical approaches to craft your own solos and improvisations.

Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles is organized into 5 sections. In the first section, Fareed Haque goes deep on soloing over chord substitutions with 4 principles and accompanying demonstration. Sheryl Bailey presents 3 bebop soloing etudes with performances and breakdowns in Section 2. You’ll learn 3 of Larry Carlton’s hit instrumentals in Section 3. Pat Martino shares priceless insight in a series of demonstrations and performances in Section 4. Mimi Fox wraps things up in Section 5 with a performance study and extensive breakdown.

When you’ve completed the lessons here in Advanced Soloing Principles, you’ll find more lessons focused on soloing in Advanced Soloing Approaches, also a Play Jazz Guitar 10 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let’s get started!

What you'll learn

Apply chromatic approaches to chord changes
Applying chord substitution techniques
Creating harmonic tension in chord progressions
Practice jazz chord movements
Learn chord substitution techniques

Release date: 09/14/2016 • 3h 30m runtime

late intermediate advanced guitar electric guitar soloing improvisation

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Sample lessons

Chord Substitution: 2

Principle 2

Bonus Bebop Outtake

Performance

Room 335

Performance

Smiles and Smiles To Go

Performance

Chord Substitution: 2

Principle 2

Bonus Bebop Outtake

Performance

Room 335

Performance

Smiles and Smiles To Go

Performance

What's included

59 lessons • 20 charts • 11 Jam Tracks

Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles

Welcome to Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles for late intermediate to advanced students of Jazz guitar.

This Jazz Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Pat Martino, Larry Carlton, Sheryl Bailey, Mimi Fox, and Fareed Haque.

The Advanced Soloing Principles curriculum is comprised of select Jazz guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

The ability to improvise freely, and creatively, over any given groove or changes is one of the key skills that distinguishes the advanced and pro player. The insight and performance studies in this core course will advance your technical, creative, and improvisational skills. Learn the soloing examples note-for-note and then use the ideas and technical approaches to craft your own solos and improvisations.

Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles is organized into 5 sections. In the first section, Fareed Haque goes deep on soloing over chord substitutions with 4 principles and accompanying demonstration. Sheryl Bailey presents 3 bebop soloing etudes with performances and breakdowns in Section 2. You'll learn 3 of Larry Carlton's hit instrumentals in Section 3. Pat Martino shares priceless insight in a series of demonstrations and performances in Section 4. Mimi Fox wraps things up in Section 5 with a performance study and extensive breakdown.

When you've completed the lessons here in Advanced Soloing Principles, you'll find more lessons focused on soloing in Advanced Soloing Approaches, also a Play Jazz Guitar 10 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!

Soloing Concepts

In this first section, Fareed Haque presents 5 principles for chord substitutions, which will certainly broaden your knowledge base for comping, but they are presented here to fuel your soloing and improvisations. Fareed demonstrates the principles in action and then you'll work through a series of playalongs to practice the principles.

TIP! Soloing is more than just licks. You need to understand the correlation between phrasing, melody and harmony. Becoming a good soloist is as much if not more mental than physical.

When you are working on various soloing concepts, ask yourself questions like - What chords will this approach work over? What groove or feel does this solo fit best over? What is the best note choice for this part? How can I get from here to there in the solo? Are there other scale options? Does my solo have a beginning, a middle and an end? - Or am I just rambling on.

Asking yourself these questions as you are beginning to build up your soloing chops will help make sure you are really thinking about what you are playing and working on. If you put in the time on this now, it will eventually lead you to the ultimate place for soloists where you won't have to think about any of it at all - you just play!

Principles of Chord Subs

Principles of Chord Subs - Quick Summary is a video guitar lesson presented by Fareed Haque and is sourced from Bebop Improv Survival Guide.

to this in depth in The Jazz Comping Survival Guide, so you may also want to revisit that course to get a refresherrrrrr…

Chord Substitution: 1

Chord Substitution: 1 - Principle 1 is a video guitar lesson presented by Fareed Haque and is sourced from Bebop Improv Survival Guide.

Principle 1: Any chord can become a dominant, and still retain its function.

For example: If we have a simple ii-V-I in C major ussually that'd be D min7 to G 7 to C maj7. However if we want to 'jazz up' the sound we might choose to play D7 to G7 to C7. It still functions the same, the ii is still ii the V still V but now we have II7-V7-I7. Way groooovier. Especially if we add in 9ths 13ths etc to sweeten up the voicings.

Chord Substitution: 2

Chord Substitution: 2 - Principle 2 is a video guitar lesson presented by Fareed Haque and is sourced from Bebop Improv Survival Guide.

Principle 2: Lead to any chord with its own dominant.

For ex: we can take our ii-V-I in C and lead to Dmt with its own dominant A7. we can even shuttle between a chord and its dominant as much as we want, and have time for, before moving on to the next chord. dm7 - G7 -Cmaj 7 can become A7 - Dm7 to A7 to D7 to G7-D7-D7-Cmaj7-G7-C7! All coming from adding dominants and leading dominants to a simple ii-V-I in C!

Chord Substitution: 3

Chord Substitution: 3 - Principle 3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Fareed Haque and is sourced from Bebop Improv Survival Guide.

Principle 3: Any Dominant can become a ii-V.

Getting hairy now: The key here is that a ii-V is simply a glorified, jazzified classical suspension. Dm7 has color tones of F and C. G7 has color tones of F and B. So really the only thing that changes between the two chords is the root of course and the C in Dm7 moving to B in G7. C to B against G7 is a classic suspension and resolution…SO our ii-V-I, Dm7-G7-Cmaj7 can become D7-G7-C7 using Principle 1.

Then we can turn each of these dominants into a ii-V using our principle 3: D7-G7-C7 becomes Am7-D7 to Dm7-G7 to Gm7-C7.

Chord Substitution: 4

Chord Substitution: 4 - Principle 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by Fareed Haque and is sourced from Bebop Improv Survival Guide.

Principle 4: TriTone Subs!

This one seems really hairy, sounds awesome, but actually is pretty simple. Imagine a bass or tuba player back in the day. playing G,G,G,G - C,C,C,C - G,G,G,G TO C,C,C,C again and agan and again. Ach! Someone shoot me quick! Thats what any bored bass player or tubist [tubist?] would be saying after 200 gigs. Eventually, that bored tubist played G,G,G,G TO C,C,C,C TO G,G THEN CHROMATIC Db,Db !!! TO C.

Wow.

That little step for a tuba player, one giant leap for all of JAZZ HISTORY. 'Cuz when you play a G7 with a Db in the bass, justa chromatic little note leading back home, tghat Db creates a Db7 b5 chord. So with that little chromatic move, the whole chord was reinvented and a sound was created that would define the sound of BeBop and modern jazz. So dm7-G7-Cmaj7 could become D7-G7-C7 and then become D7-Ab7-G7-Db7-C7.

Phew.

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andrea i.

10/18/19

Good Mix

Play Jazz Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Principles is a good mix of some of great true fire course that you can find, with ifferent approach and different teachers about topics. If you are not sure about which course buy or which teachers follow, this can be very helpful. There a lot of things to work on with this course, and can be good for both interemdiate and avanced players i racomand this course if you haven't already see a lot of true fire course in this area