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Post by shadowguitarist on May 10, 2010 9:02:13 GMT -5
Hi nano, You have quite a number of difficult to answer questions! My approach to soloing has always come from a lick vocabulary philosophy i.e. I believe that most of improvisation is actually pre-learnt and only about 30% of what you play when you solo is 'made up' on the spot. What I believe you should do is to learn as many new licks as you can to play over all the main chords i.e. maj7th, minor7th, dominant7th chords etc. Your question about creating tension on the 2nd and 4th beats is an interesting one which I use to ponder about a lot. My opinion of this now is that if you start thinking about what notes to play on what beat, you're missing the point! Ignore the rule about the 2nd and 4th beat and focus on what sounds good. This comes with practise. Expand your jazz guitar lick library and listen to as many jazz tunes as you can, to get inspiration. Coming up with your own licks isn't hard but as a beginner, you're better off learning licks from others. >>And how do you do to make dorian sound dorian and mixolydian sound mixo? The tunes that scraggo had pointed out are good for inspiration. In general, if you want to embellish the sounds of a mode, play arpeggios which are built from the notes of the mode. E.g. for D dorian - arpeggios which you can use are Dm7, Fmaj7, Am7, G7, Bm7b5. Hope that helps!
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