The biggest roadblock players face when learning how to solo and improvise is understanding how to connect the dots between the scales, arpeggios and licks they’ve learned and then craft the expressive musical ideas they hear in their head. How does that magic happen?
Free of tedious theory and boring exercises, Rotem Sivan’s Soloing Magic reveals 40 intuitive techniques and creative approaches for making that magic happen on your fretboard — utilizing what you already know!
”Over the years, I’ve learned that it's not about scales, phrases and theory — the true “magic” that I was seeking, was already there.
In this course, I’ll share all the key soloing concepts and principles that I’ve learned along the way here in Soloing Magic. No scales, tedious exercises or deep theory — you’ll play your way through Soloing Magic!
We’ll work on over 40 concepts that utilize what you already know and put it all to work, across 10 soloing performance studies.”
Rotem Sivan’s guitar skills are heralded across the globe. Downbeat Magazine calls him “a remarkable talent,” Treble FM, describes him as a “bonafide guitar god," and Just Jazz Guitar calls him “a master of jazz guitar — a true artist!” Rotem’s album, Antidote, charted on Billboard Jazz at #16, iTunes Jazz as #1, and Top 100 album for ALL iTunes music.
We’re thrilled to welcome Rotem to the family with his first TrueFire course, Soloing Magic — an illuminating curriculum focused on crafting original, compelling solos and improvisations for any style.
Whatever your style: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country… these creative approaches will light up the “magic” in your own solos.
Rotem will show you how to framework your learning journey, set goals, and practice efficiently to accelerate your progress. You’ll learn how to “listen deeper” to develop your ears.
Rotem will explain and demonstrate over 40 creative approaches and soloing concepts that utilize what you already know. You’ll put it all to work, over backing tracks, across 10 soloing performance studies.
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Like most guitarists when just starting out, I didn't understand how to connect the dots between scales, arpeggios, and theory to express my emotions musically. How does that magic happen? Over the years, I've learned that it's not about scales, phrases and theory — the true "magic" that I was seeking, was already there.
In this course, I'll share all the key soloing concepts and principles that I've learned, along the way. No scales, tedious exercises or deep theory — you'll play your way through Soloing Magic!
We'll work on over 40 concepts that utilize what you already know and put it all to work, across 10 soloing performance studies.
I'll show you how to framework your learning journey, set goals and practice efficiently to accelerate your progress. I'll teach you how to "listen deeper" to develop your ears. Whatever your style; Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country...these creative approaches will light up the "magic" in your own solos.
Grab your guitar and let's make the magic happen!
2The Journey of a Musical Life
Here are 12 points that have helped me in my musical journey. If you apply these core ideas, you'll get very far! Some of those seem easy, but they'll take you to the next level.
3Themes & Intuitive Soloing
To me, soloing is more about editing than anything else. Some of the greatest solos are made with the fewest amount of notes and a ton of feel and expressiveness in exchange. In this next section of videos, we'll explore the C Major Scale through a variety of approaches for getting more from your solos with less effort.
4Perfect Repetition
In this video, we look at ways to start building solos using the simple approach of repetition. Sometimes repeating a melodic line or riff is all you need to connect with the listener. It's an easy and effective way to get started soloing right now.
5Change the Last Note
Just like the last approach, this one is super simple but super effective. Here, we're just going to focus on changing the last note of our core line which we tried repeating in the last exercise. Once you've established a theme with that repetition, all you need to do to bring the listener somewhere else is change the last note. Give it a try.
6Omit Notes From the Line
In this concept, imagine you have your drawing and you just erase certain parts but we can still see the image. The silence helps what exists to be more present. Try to omit notes from the line - like an eraser!
7Change the Starting Note
Here we'll still keep most of our core line intact but you'll change the first note. you can also try to change 2 notes, etc. The idea is that we have the core line in mind and we apply certain concepts to get more juice out of the cell of information.
Must have ! Really helpful and useful, totally different way to teach how to improvise, easy and simple.
Follow up with Each lesson that makes build up the improvisation concepts step by step.
Really great and unique course
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jamiemeece
Verified buyer
12/11/21
Great course!
Rotem is awesome! I really dig his teaching style and enthusiasm! As always, the TrueFire tools and the different formats for the tabs etc…are a real help.
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Joel
11/11/21
Very clear !
After watching many of Rotem's clips on YouTube, I decided to buy this class. The concepts are very easy to use whatever your level is, the backing tracks are very high quality.
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Boogie50
08/01/21
It truely is magic!
This course goes way beyond the scale/arpeggio method of soling, so I recommend you have those down before proceeding with this course. That being said, Rotem takes you through 40 concepts that once internalized will most certainly take your solos to the next level and let you truly express what you are feeling when improvising. Highly recommend for the intermediate to advanced player.