(jazz music)
- Hi everybody,
my name is Jens Larsen.
In this video I am going to take
a slightly different approach
from what I normally do,
because I'm going to focus on how
to play the example that you just
heard me play.
I think when it comes to soloing
in a chord/melody format,
so where you really have to play
an improvisation and harmonize it,
and also give some sort of bass line to it,
then there are a lot of things
that need to come together,
and the best way to illustrate
how this works is probably just to show you
an example of how I do it,
and also how I play it,
and in that way give you some materials.
You can of course learn to play
the example that I'm demonstrating here,
that's gonna give you a lot of vocabulary
and some ideas.
But you can also use the things
that I talk about here as a way
of creating your own improvisations,
and start working on improvising in this setting.
So I'm going to go over how I'm playing this,
in terms of which fingers I use,
and what the focus is while I'm playing it,
so am I thinking about the bass line
or am I thinking about the chords
and how this all comes together.
And also of course,
which fingers I'm using on my right hand
or on my left hand
because that is actually a huge part of this.
I think when it comes to
improvising in this setting,
a lot of it is really about
getting the technique to work together,
and usually I don't talk so much
about things like this,
but I think for this topic
that actually makes a lot of sense.
And of course I'm curious what you think
about this way of doing lessons,
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A huge part of the course that I'm using
when I'm improvising like this
is actually shell voicings
because there's no way I can lay down a complete chord
and another thing I'm using a lot
is sort of a call-response idea.
Of course with the Blues that works really well.
So here I'm starting with the first bar
with just playing the shell voicing of the C seven
and then moving straight into a melody. So --
(guitar melody)
and now I need to transition.
So really it's just playing the chord
(guitar melody)
and then a ghost note I'm using for a bass note here.
So sometimes you can play a complete bass note
and you just keep things moving by either
repeating notes or making a ghost note like this.
That's kind of what's happening here so--
(guitar demonstration)
Simple. This is really just a C6 arpeggio
this simple melody.
Of course, it's a Blues so you can
play simple melodies.
(guitar melody)
Down to another shell voicing that's the F7
and here I'm now moving into a harmonized melodic idea.
So what I'm doing is, I'm playing
first the shell voicing and then the melody part.
So again, call-response idea.
And that's really a similar idea to
(guitar melody)
in terms of melody to what I had on the C7
because it's still just a part of an F6 arpeggio
and then I'm adding.
So I'm playing this voicing
now I don't really have room for a bass note
but I'll just use the lowest note in the voicing
which in this case is the third,
as a sort of bass note in between
just to keep things moving
and add the feeling of groove.
(guitar demonstration)
Then we get a leading note now
I do the bass note and then moving up
I'm again playing the C7 as a shell voicing here.
But I'm splitting it up, so first the bass note
and then the high melody, repeating the bass note,
and then adding some melodies.
Now I already stated the chord and the bass
and then I can use the rest of the bar
just to play a melody.
And here we have a clear example
of where, very often when I'm improvising
in this setting I'll let the melody
be the most important thing.
The melody is actually the most important thing
that happens when you're playing
a harmonization of a standard
or something like that
but also in a solo.
So here,
the most important thing
is that we get that melody
to sit right here and then I add the chord later.
So here in bar four, now we get G minor seven to
C seven altered
and I come out on the A and then I play the chord
G minor under it,
moving onto C seven.
So the melody here is really
this simple.
Again when you're playing in this setting
you're not going to be playing
a lot of dense eight note lines
So it makes sense to really focus on
simple melodies that are usually
also pretty tied into the basic chord
of course with the Blues
that anyway works better
but also just because
that's easier to play.
And you can always add
you'll see examples also later
where I start adding more extensions
and of course you already have
alterations here.
But the important thing is that
you play a melody that really sounds like a melody
and that you don't sound like you're
just trying to put a bunch of chords
next to each other.
So the important thing here
is really that we have
(guitar demonstration)
a melody that makes sense and then,
(guitar demonstration)
adding the rest afterwards.
It's really just an embellishment
and almost not necessary.
(guitar demonstration)
This would have worked too.
(guitar demonstration)
So if I play the first four bars slowly
it sounds like this.
(jazz music)
On the F seven I'm kinda starting with the same idea
as I did in the very first bar
because first I'm just playing the chord.
In this case it's just an F seven with a nine,
and then, that's just used as
laying down the harmony
it's not really a melodic chord there.
So sometimes you're gonna have chords where
the top note in the chord
is going to be a part of the melody that you're playing.
We had that with
the G minor seven but here
it's just that as a chord
and then the melody comes afterwards
and we're then using
this call-response
to first lay down the harmony
and then add the melody
(guitar demonstration)
and then
(guitar demonstration)
up to an F seven with a thirteen here.
And I'm using the same idea again
creating movement by just repeating
the lowest note in the chord.
It is a very simple chord tone
so it will work as a sort of bass note as well.
And it's not really perceived
as a walking bass anyway
because we don't really have time
to have a complete walking bass line
under our solo like this.
(guitar demonstration)
And then we get this melody.
(guitar demonstration)
On the F seven so
I'm harmonizing the top notes.
This is really also just working with
what's possible and what's easy to reach.
Of course if I'm playing this F seven
then this one is already associated with it.
So that's why I'm also easily going to that one.
(guitar demonstration)
And then I leave the basic part of this ringing, so.
(guitar demonstration)
And in that way just keep
the sound of the harmony there
while I'm playing the melody.
(guitar demonstration)
I guess, in terms of this,
I mean, I'm using,
most of the time I'm using
these four fingers on my right hand
and then I'm just switching it up.
There's no real system.
This is really something that
I'm not thinking about at all.
But I will play a lot of three note chords
where I kinda just use these three fingers
and then use my third finger for the melody.
And here, when I'm using four notes
it's usually just the thumb
and that's also one of the reasons
why I'm repeating that note here
because this is the finger that I'm using
for bass movement anyway.
And that's why I'm also sometimes
using the lowest note in a chord
as a bass even though it's not really
a note that's in a bass line.
And it doesn't really matter too much
because in a practical situation
it just keeps things moving.
And this is just about creating
some movement and some groove
and that soft note added here
will help with that.
(guitar demonstration)
And it doesn't interfere with the melody
as you can here.
(guitar demonstration)
Then we're moving to F sharp diminished.
And here again
(guitar demonstration)
This is the melody.
It's kinda like a Blues
and here, of course,
kept simple phrasing-wise
because that's what we can handle
in this setting.
But I'm really letting the melody rule here
and not adding anything under it.
And then, once the melody's played
I'm adding the rest of the diminished chord.
First, this inversion with an E flat in the bass
and then
(guitar demonstration)
moving up to the one with F sharp
in the bass.
And then we get a leading note
to take us back to C.
Shell voicing again.
And then moving up and taking the high C as a melody.
So here I'm really barring again
to get this and that's this idea of...
That's something that's also really useful
to check out. If you wanna make you're
own arrangements like this
or if you wanna improvise your own solos
then experiment with using
different fingerings for the shell voicings
because they're going to give you
different things that you can play.
And you wanna kinda be
really used to just switching
between them and use whatever
(guitar demonstration)
works in the situation.
That's a really important part of this also.
So it makes sense to actually go, even from
(guitar demonstration)
this,
to this,
to this,
and just really trying the different versions
and see what works.
If you have to play a flat five
then this one is better.
If you have to play the fifth
this one works.
There's not one version that's
gonna be better than the rest.
They all have different applications
and you kinda wanna have them
all in there because they're
gonna allow you to play different melodies.
So here I'm starting
just with the barre version of it.
Of course the problem with the barre version
is if you play with a pick
you can't play
this, this and this
and barre here because then
you're gonna get a lot of other notes
ringing that you don't wanna have ringing.
But in this case I'm play with fingers
so that works.
And it sounds kinda old fashioned Blues
to just repeat the bass note here.
But it does, I think for this it
just kinda works to just
(guitar demonstration)
to just have that movement in there so...
(guitar demonstration)
And again this is just really about
what is possible, what is practical
and repeating the bass note like this
is not really an issue.
And if I have to change it then
that would require me to
either give up the barre here that I'm using
or to use another finger and that
gets tricky quite quickly so...
(guitar demonstration)
And that's also what I'm doing later in this example.
So if we first get this melody, so...
(guitar demonstration)
And it's almost as if I'm quickly
implying an F seven here. At least that's in the bass.
Moving down to this E half diminished
I'm not playing a complete E half diminished
I'm playing an E minor without a fifth.
And here, I'm adding a little more bass line.
There's a bit of a curious thing happening
because I think what I hear
is that when I let go here of the E
you can hear the A and that actually gives
me a bassline that sounds like this.
(guitar demonstration)
So we kinda get a leading note up to the B flat
here on the one end.
And then the B flat is
leading you down to the A seven.
Shell voicing again,
adding the flat thirteen as melody. So...
(guitar demonstration)
and then repeating the bass note.
The second four bars played slowly sound like this.
(jazz music)
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The last four bars here
are really demonstrating how a more pop line would sound
in a setting like this
because here we have a longer two, five, one
and it really lends itself a lot better
to playing that type of melody.
And also it is really a place where
the Jazz/Blues is sounding
less like the Blues.
And so we have a bar of D minor
and a bar of G seven.
The line I'm playing here is,
if you watched some of the videos that I made
on how to solo in a chord/melody setting
already I've made a few of those,
then you will see that I talk about
different positions.
And here I'm actually shifting
from one position to the next.
This is something that I didn't cover in those lessons.
I might make some exercises on doing this
because that's something you run into really fast.
If you have to play a chord
under the melody that your playing,
that means you wanna keep your
melody on the higher strings.
And if you have a melody that moves a lot
you don't have as much of a range
if you're only using like two maybe three strings
to play the melody.
But if you wanna play something
that has like a range where you
need a seventh chord arpeggio, then
you kinda need an octave. And that,
most of the time, means
that you have to shift position.
That's what I'm doing here on the
D minor sevenths.
I'm starting with just really
a basic drop two, D minor seven
complete voicing
and then, using what's practical here
you can play a melody where you're just using
(guitar demonstration)
one note here, and I can harmonize the whole thing.
Because all I do is just repeat the chord.
And play the three middle strings.
Then I'm moving up to this note, the C
which is still within this chord,
or the range of this chord at least.
And then I shift position up to...
actually, I think I play all three strings here
(guitar demonstration)
shift up to the next position
which is around this D minor chord
and play the D minor nine, running down the scale.
And of course
I can do this while the chord is still ringing so...
(guitar demonstration)
And then transitioning into G seven.
The G seven I'm starting with just playing
two notes from the chord; first the root,
just to state what the root of the five is,
adding the third, and it's really just like
filling up the gap here so I don't have
any melody for the first beat,
that's on beat two.
(guitar demonstration)
adding the bass note again in between.
(guitar demonstration)
And then the melody becomes:
(guitar demonstration)
And then, adding the D to take us back
to the C for the final turnaround.
Going down to C seven shell voicing.
(guitar demonstration)
So first, just a shell voicing,
With, now the melody is the E,
Adding more melody with the G and the A.
(guitar demonstration)
Bass note, to take us up to A seven
and then the focus here is really
going back and forth between
the melody and the bass line. So...
(guitar demonstration)
and I'm really only adding chords
if it fits with what I'm doing with the melody.
And that's kinda easy for the first one
because that's really just A seven sharp nine. So...
Then focus back to the bass line.
(guitar demonstration)
So what we have here for the D minor
is first the bass note, chord and then
really just a simple scale melody
up to the G seven altered.
And really just using the B flat, A flat,
so the sharp nine, flat nine.
And again, this is something that's
included in the voicing
if you have this one,
this one is really close by
and it's just very practical to play.
That is the reason why you wanna use that.
(guitar demonstration)
And then moving the bass here.
The idea here is really just to have...
(guitar demonstration)
so the conversation happening
so you have the bass line moving
and then you put the melody in between that,
and then at the very end on the G seven
it kinda comes together
where you have bass line and melody at the same time.
And then the coda to this one
which is just B flat seven to B seven
up to C seven and ending the fifth as the final melody.
(jazz music)
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