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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:16 am
always on the spot I cant do solos written out XP
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:35 pm
now that i'm in the school big band, i play first tenor and i'm getting more soloing experience for jazz!!! biggrin we're playing a lot of Mark Taylor and Sammy Nestico arrangements. i really like Count Bubba by Gordon Goodwin and Some Skunk Funk by the Breckers Bros.
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:38 pm
well improv solos are on the spot, but ther are pretty much prethought as well. if they were only on the spto, then anyone that plays an instrument can do it, but of course, ot everyone can do it that well. when you play a solo, it is stuff that you already know, that you've practiced, that you've played before just in different order, in different keys, or in different patterns. like my lesson teacher tells me, you play what you already know
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:47 pm
I guess that's true, but when I say prethought, I mean like, thinking of a solo before you perform it, and everytime you play the solo, it's the exact same patterns in the same order.
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Fashionable Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:53 pm
Well you get to a point when you dont think about licks when you solo. You're only thinking about the changes and where they're going. It's also fun to play off the rythm section or rather have them play off your ideas. Guys like Michael Brecker and JJ Johnson are probably not thinking about what they want to play in their solo before they do it. It's also fun to play off of what the previous soloist was doing or go off each other if your trading fours.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:38 pm
It depends on the type of chart that we are playing....if it's a ballad, i have a hard time thinking up a solo on the spot. But if it's a fast be-bop, i can have a solo on the spot....it just varys
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:39 pm
MHHornfreak Well you get to a point when you dont think about licks when you solo. You're only thinking about the changes and where they're going. It's also fun to play off the rythm section or rather have them play off your ideas. Guys like Michael Brecker and JJ Johnson are probably not thinking about what they want to play in their solo before they do it. It's also fun to play off of what the previous soloist was doing or go off each other if your trading fours. ...woah, how would someone play off the rhythm section? it would like... loop cuz theyd play off of what u play which is what they're playing... eek
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:38 pm
my sax teacher just gave me the changes for this tune called Wind Machine! this is the first time that i will use diminished scales/chords in my solos. oh, ggeez, i haven't looked at it much because i just got sick, so i think i'm gonna have to solo on the spot tomorrow!!! sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:37 pm
i think improvised solos usually sound better...just not when i do them sweatdrop i suck at solos so i dont do solos unless theyre planned before hand...i cant do the whole "on the spot" thing...
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:55 pm
someone on this guild (sorry i can't remeber who) said just keep playing your licks over and over until they become just about second nature. that's what i'm trying to do right now. that way, you're still improvising, you don't lose your confidence, and every here and there you'll discover that you've played one of your licks. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:30 pm
Some ideas and motifs are usually patterns that you've got in your fingers (I play piano mostly), but general direction is totally on the spot.
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:07 am
simplysteel Some ideas and motifs are usually patterns that you've got in your fingers (I play piano mostly), but general direction is totally on the spot. the patterns thins works for almost all jazz instruments. 3nodding i think it really depends on the genre in which i find comfort.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:49 pm
most of the time I think them over and sometimes I have music infront of me. I can only remember doing one solo on the spot and that was back in elementry school. I just played around with notes off a blues scale. cool cool cool
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:26 pm
I like to have a central idea there that I can always go back to, but I improv the stuff around it.
It's different every time I play it, but it's still similar to the one before it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:57 pm
i've heard that another good way to improvise is to develop a sort of melody and build around it, repeatedly, and it sounds very clever and organized. what do you guys think?
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