Numberless
Platinum Member
I decided to work on my soloing this upcoming month so I dug up my copy of "Art of Bop" by John Riley and flipped it to the Soloing section. Previously I had only worked on the One bar Phrases section and found them to be of great use at improving my vocabulary. I started working on developing question and answers solos, if you don't have the book, the format John uses is:
Question 1 (bars 1-2)
Answer 1 (3-4)
Question 1 (5-6)
Answer 2 (7-8)
Answer 1 as question (9-10)
Answer 2 (11-12)
Answer 1 as question (13-14)
Question 1 as answer (15-16)
And I don't know if it's just me but it is soooooooo challenging, if you seen the Benny Greb Improvisation lesson then this is a similar concept but on steroids. Have any of you guys worked on stuff like this? What are your thoughts on it? I am currently having a frustrating time remembering the first answer and posing it as a question...if you've never tried something like this, give it a shot at your next practice session, I promise you it's harder than it sounds!
Question 1 (bars 1-2)
Answer 1 (3-4)
Question 1 (5-6)
Answer 2 (7-8)
Answer 1 as question (9-10)
Answer 2 (11-12)
Answer 1 as question (13-14)
Question 1 as answer (15-16)
And I don't know if it's just me but it is soooooooo challenging, if you seen the Benny Greb Improvisation lesson then this is a similar concept but on steroids. Have any of you guys worked on stuff like this? What are your thoughts on it? I am currently having a frustrating time remembering the first answer and posing it as a question...if you've never tried something like this, give it a shot at your next practice session, I promise you it's harder than it sounds!