Melodic Soloing

Join Stuart Bull to learn and master melodic solos complete with full backing tracks. Featuring three solos in the styles of Gary Moore Steve Lukather and David Gilmour Melodic Soloing will give you the opportunity to master the solos note for note and learn useful tips to recreate the styles yourself. Follow along with Stuart to find those unique melodies that you’ve always known you had.

Par BREWSTER DAVID. This breakthrough guide for guitarists will unlock some of the mystery behind playing over chords and progressions. Working through this material and these concepts will help any guitarist learn how to play the right notes, at the right time - all the time. Each chapter centers on a different chord type and progression and includes various soloing concepts, phrasing options, and melodic approaches to playing over chords in both major and minor keys. This includes playing over basic major and minor chords and eventually moves into 7th chords and their extensions. After the basic premise is introduced and various targeting concepts are explored, there's a section covering how to apply intervals melodically, in addition to sharing the Pentatonic Highway targeted soloing approach, which will help you navigate the fretboard using the famous Pentatonic-based shifting concept. This method encourages the use of looping and loop pedals, which will make practicing this material much easier on your own. Additionally, you can have other guitarists or musicians perform the static chords and progressions behind you as you practice these concepts and ideas. If you're searching for a method that will help you understand the options that are available when soloing and playing over individual chords and progressions - Target Tones is the key to helping you unlock these commonly misunderstood areas of melodic soloing and improvisation. Includes access to musical audio examples online./ Etude / Guitare

Effortless Guitar Series-This DVD will introduce you to the world of octave playing in the style of Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Pat Metheny. Learn how to dramatically musically and effortlessly expand your soloing using all of the touch taste tone time and above all tude as in ATTITUDE. Using octaves guitarists can kick-up the melodic possibilities of their soloing far beyond scales licks and chords – and give the player powerful new tools forimprovisation not just in jazz but blues pop and rock. Learn about octaves by learning easy to play contemporary jazz pieces in an effortless progression from the basics to some of the most advanced and expressive octave playingall in the course of one video! Sections include: Octave basics around the neck • using the thumb fingers and pick for maximum versatility • Chord solo concepts using octaves • blues licks scales and chromaticriffs in octaves • Play melodies expressively with octaves developing an awesome touch using right hand tonal techniques • developing a naturally expressive style using techniques such as expressive dynamic contouring• expressive devices such as slurs tremolo slides • additional harmony behond octaves • lots of solo ideas to develop and adapt into your own style.

Par RASO JASON. Jason Raso's Soloing on Electric Bass: A Chord Tone Approach provides the next step following his first book for Mel Bay Publications, Improvising on Electric Bass. The primary focus of this second book is to help you develop a more melodic approach to solo bass playing. The author suggests avoiding root notes, concentrating instead on chord tones of a 3rd, 5th, and 7th as fertile ground to begin revising your approach to more creative soloing. Following a series of standard notation exercises exploring intervals and goal notes in all keys, Jason presents a dozen original solo etudes in notation and tablature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Pédagogie / Tablatures / Guitare Basse

Arpeggios-A modern arpeggio handbook and comprehensive training manual for developing fast flowing arpeggio runs that connect the entire fretboard. Emphasis is on developing fluid non-shifting arpeggio patterns (across the neck) usinghammer-ons and pull-offs for speed and fluidity; and also on developing smooth position-shifting arpeggios (along the length of the neck) using slides. These two types of motion are then connected and combined in an extensivecollection of soloing etudes for full assimilation. The result is a complete system of arpeggio pathways that connects every part of the fretboard and facilitates maximum speed fluidity and range. Complete whole-neck connectionsare presented for major 7th dominant 7th minor 7th minor 6th half-diminished diminished 7th major triadic and minor triadic arpeggios.This book is for all guitarists who are serious about improving their ability tosolo over chord progressions using arpeggios in any style of music; including rock jazz fusion blues country or pop. Having the ability to instantly outline any chord in a song with a fluid arpeggio run (no matter where yourhand is on the neck) is immensely valuable for every guitarist. This book methodically teaches you the skills that make this possible. Loaded with melodic arpeggio passages that can be applied to your music immediately this isperhaps the most practical and powerful arpeggio book ever written. Standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Par GILBERT / MARLIS. La guida professionale all'Improvvisazione. Questo libro (continuazione di Guitar Soloing, ML2411) è un passo successivo, una guida avanzata per imparare l'arte dell'improvvisazione melodica. Il CD include 22 dimostrative e play-along. Scale, arpeggi, mod / Pédagogie / Etude / Guitare

Kolb reveals the tools and strategies necessary for creating memorable intelligent lead lines.If you're looking to break out of that pentatonic rut and greatly expand your repertoire look no further.Tom breaks these topics down in a concise easy-to-understand fashion and demonstrates their usefulness with exciting musical examples.Topics covered include: rocking up Mixolydian ? 3rds and 6ths ? arpeggios ? ?the railroad track? the easiest scale in the world ? minor scales and modes ? Lydian: a major alternative ? major-key soloing for rockers ? triad substitutions ? pentatonic double stops ? killer guitar tone ? open-string embellishments.

Let the undisputed King of Swing bring a personable and relaxed approach to the serious business of creating flowing and swinging guitar lines. In this one-hour presentation Herb Ellis uses the 12-bar blues progression as a background while he discusses and demonstrates some favorite lines that have made him part of jazz guitar history. Herb takes you through tuning chord formations scales picking comping equipment and melodic ideas and adds some commonsense advice. DVD special features include a tuning segment a bonus performance by Joe Pass bonus lessons in swing blues and major arpeggios and printable PDF reference materials.

A comprehensive source for mastering the art of single-note melodic improvisation by Daniel Gilbert and Beth Marlis. Covering scales modes arpeggios technique and visualisation exercises rock blues jazz and other styles sequences phrases and licks this is an effective and well constructed method from the Musicians Institute Essential Concepts series. The included CD features over 30 tracks for demonstration and playalong.Musicians Institute Press is the official series of Southern California's renowned music school. MI instructors some of the finest musicians in the world share their vast knowledge and experience with you nomatter what your current level.

The creative guide to mastering the Guitar, Fretboard Fluency teaches you the sequential patterns, interval skips, triads and arpeggios that turn scales into useable melodic tools for soloing. It will help you to develop your musical ears while also building excellent technique and creative solos.Fretboard Fluency also gets you intimately acquainted with the Guitar neck by teaching you how to play every important scale, in every key in every position on the fretboard. By using just five scales you will open up the whole fretboard to instantly access every scale or mode anywhere on the Guitar.This book trains your ears and brain to be in charge of your fingers, while also developing your internal 'dictionary' of creative, melodic approaches. The patterns, structures and approaches you will learn help you to find new and creative ways to express yourself when soloing.Fretboard Fluency covers:Melodic SequencesIntervalsTriadsArpeggiosCreativityThe CAGED System for All ScalesTechnique and FluencyPractical Application and Much More / Guitare

Jazz Phrasing for Trumpet and Jazz Phrasing for Trombone feature ten melodic pieces which are easy to play, yet convey the essence of mainstream (Swing/Bebop/Bossa) jazz vocabulary. The pieces are catchy and melodic, demonstrating the use of sequence and voice-leading to make a musical statement. The Phrasing for Trumpet book includes a play-along CD featuring trumpeter Victor Garcia playing each song with a world-class rhythm section, while Phrasing for Trombone features trombonist Russ Phillips. The CD's also include tracks featuring Greg Fishman demonstrating each song on alto saxophone, giving trumpet and trombone players the option of playing along with trumpet or alto saxophone. In addition, there are play-along tracks featuring just the rhythm section. These tracks are great for practicing the songs, chords, scales, voice-leading lines and soloing over the chords progressions. These books will provide valuable insights into a melodic approach to jazz improvisation. This book is recommended for players of all levels who wish to improve their tone, articulation, phrasing, and understanding of thematic development. Special Features of Jazz Phrasing for Trumpet and Jazz Phrasing for Trombone: ' Suggested Use Section - Detailed instructions on a variety of ways to work with the book. ' Style and Analysis Section - Clear, concise explanations of sequence, variation and voice-leading ' Thematic Index - Lets you compare the opening themes of all ten songs in a convenient two page at-a-glance format. Also includes detailed information on the opening interval of each song, as well as harmonic context of the opening interval.

The Quintessential Rut-Buster 2-DVD Set-Guitar players love to jam. Call out a key lay down a one or two chord vamp the rhythm section kicks in and everybody starts to get their groove on - simple enough for seasoned players with monster improv chops and big ears.Not so easy for most intermediate and early advanced players who tend to run out of ideas and struggle communicating musically with the other members of the band.This 2-DVD set illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps.You'll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas in a vamp or jam setting with the otherband members.The DVDs cover creative devices like melodic patterns call and response stutter picking guide tones horizontal lines tone targeting muffled arpeggios chromatics expressions passing tones and other techniques for generating ideas on the fly.You'll also learn how to develop ideas around unusual scales like the Super Locrian Bartok minor and harmonic minor scales.Rhythm and comping are also covered with equal emphasis; clave rhythms inversions rhythmic alteration quartal harmony bubble parts chord punches and how to clearly communicate and then lock up with the band is demonstrated in detail.