4/23/2021 0 Comments Blue Bossa Pdf
In this lesson Ill present a set of arpeggios, some exercises, target notes and strategies for making solos where you can hear the harmony in the improvisation.Most people have an easier time hearing the melody in the back of your mind as a way of keeping track of where you are in the form.Id suggest you learn the melody by heart and in as many positions as possible.
Id also suggest you memorize the chords because you need that once you want to go through the exercises in this lesson. Two bars of tonic (Cm) then two bars of IVm (Fm) followed by a cadence to Cm (Dm7b5 G7 Cm7) and a cadence to Db: (Ebm7 Ab7 Dbmaj7) and then a cadence to Cm again. The Db you need to treat as a modulation though it could also be seen as a neapolitan subdominant chord (You can read more about these here: IV minor chords ). Since the goal of this lesson is to improvise fluently with well connected melodies using the arpeggios, I have written out all the arpeggios around the 8th position. Shifting up and down the neck is going to make it much more difficult to play logical melodies and almost impossible to do some of the exercises. I show a few in the video, but playing them in groups of 3 or 4 notes, skipping notes etc are good ways to get more flexible with the arpeggio. You need the flexibilty when you start improvising, and keep in mind that it is about flexibility and overview not about speed when working on this. This will not only help practicing the arppegios but also build your sense of the form of the song and help you hear the chords moving and when they change. Its quite tricky to get started with but very rewarding when you start getting the freedom while improvising. The idea is that a strong and logical sounding line will be a line that has the direction towards a clear target note. I also discuss this way of making melodies in another lesson that you can check: Target Notes You will notice in the solso I improvise in the video that I am not too concerned with target notes unless the chord is changing. The best place to start is to just use the 3rd of each chord as a target you can quickly expand this to other notes but the 3rd is fairly safe and easy to hear. That is the best way for me to improve my lessons and make thme fit what you want to hear.
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