Aurelien Budynek: target notes lesson

News:
24-11-2008:
Target Notes, how to break out of your commonly used patterns, Aurelien Budynek says:
I often get asked how one, when soloing, can break out of obvious patterns like going up and down the scale (wether it's
pentatonic, minor, major, a mode etc...), but at the same time be meaningful and coherent in the note choice. One way that I find works really well, is to know how to think and play vertically rather than exclusively horizontally and to be able to switch back and forth between the two ideas. What does this mean? First, it implies that you're soloing over a set of chord changes. It can be a very small set of changes (a blues form, a two-chord vamp or a long one chord vamp with a bridge...) or a larger set like a jazz tune. Playing
horizontally means that you'll use the same scale over the whole form (like using a pentatonic scale over a whole blues form), whereas playing vertically means that you consider each chord as its own thing. Let's try to find a way to connect the two.
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