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Author: wjk
Date: 2004-04-01 14:35
Can someone explain an approach to soloing over the ii-v-i combination?
Any other suggested "jazz" progressions?
Thanks!
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-01 14:40
No specific recommendations, but if you can get some of the Jamey Aebersold 'play-along' albums, I found them to be a great help in learning to solo over most of the 'standard' progressions.
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Author: William
Date: 2004-04-01 14:50
By ear. Learn the sound of the progression--in all keys--and then, just go for it. Lots of listening experiance (jazz) and technical mastery of scales and arpeggios in every key also helps.
Many beginning jazzers start with the "blues scale"--ex. in C maj. C, Eb, F, F#, G, Bb, and C. Use these notes in any combination and they will work for that progression as well as the "twelve bar blues" often simply I-IV-I-II-V7-I (in twelve bars of 4/4 time). Hope this helps a bit--good luck.
Post Edited (2004-04-01 14:50)
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Author: DougR
Date: 2004-04-01 20:02
Sure--pick up some of those solo transcription books of jazz players you like, and start an archive of their lines over the ii-v-i's in the solos. I mean, literally re-write their ii-v-i line on a clean page of music paper, then transpose it into all the keys. Soon as you find another ii-v-i line you like, cop THAT one, transpose into all the keys. Start a collection!! By the time you can play them all, you'll have a "memory bank" of ii-v-i's that you can either throw into a solo note-for-note, or morph to fit the rhythmic/comping situation you're in. (I've got Clifford Brown licks, Sonny Rollins licks, Brecker licks I can't BEGIN to play, Abe Most licks, Cannonball licks....you get the idea?)
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Author: allencole
Date: 2004-04-02 09:20
It's very easy. in a ii-V-I sequence your tonal center is the "I" and its associated major scale has all the notes needed to play something coherent.
(ex. D dorian, G mixolydian and C major are each an all-white-key scale. only the starting and ending points differ)
That will get you started. You'll soon want to make things more interesting, and there is some great advice posted above.
Allen Cole
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