seven skrang
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can anyone show me some improv techniques particularly arpeggios?
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thats weird, i have that oneDrew said:Interesting, Jim.
Also mandatory if you want to play Jazz - "The Real Book, Volume I." when someone talks about a fake book, they mean this. Everything you need to know about soloing over changes can be learned by sitting down with one of these and working out arpeggios of the chords in the standards transcribed within.
-D
Drew said:I mean, I don't know how to explain this any easier, but if you have to play over an Em9, then any Em9 chord tones will work - the root, m3, 5, m7, and 9 are all in play (respectively E, G, B, D, and F#). Say you're going back and forth between Em9 and C11 - switch from those chord tones to lines focusing on C, E, G, Bb, D, and F (root, 3, 5, b7, 9, 11) and you're good to go. Once this begins to get comfortable, you can start adding tones from extentions of these - suggest 11ths 13ths, and whatnot, as your ear begins to get comfortable with adding tension.
(a cautionary word - this is how to get comfortable playing "inside" and serious jazz guys think that's boring as fuck. Still, you gotta build the vocab before you can step out)
Find a head you like in your fake book, sit down, and once you're comfortable comping it, start going through and playing lines in straight 8ths with JUST chord tones, a nonstop stream of 8th note arpeggios, improvising. Don't worry about phrasing or anything, just force yourself to keep playing. Once you can do this in your sleep all over the neck, start adding outside tones, scale tones, varying the phrasing, and just go to town.
If you've got volume II, I've always been partial to Gershwin's "Summertime," Carmichael's "Georgia," and Waldron's "All Alone."
-D
dpmasunder said:I proclaim Jazz supreme and administer Naked City.
pfffff *flex*
Sorry, I'm late to the party![]()
desertdweller said:Agreed. Administering Stanley Jordan "Live in New York."
He makes "Somewhere over the Rainbow" cool.