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CASEY CORMIER: Once you're comfortable with a melody, with playing the melody, and really
maybe you even have it memorized or at least parts of it, then you can start elaborating
on this melody, not only just for when you're playing it to make it more interesting, but
in preparation for making solos, because a lot of what we do when we solo is creating
melodies ourselves based off a previous melody. So, remember our open position with this excerpt
of a melody, we had B flat, C, B flat, and then G, F, E flat. Just in that. [PLAYS IMPROVISED
SOLO] I'm just using notes that were going to end up here. One, two, three, four, one
[PLAYS SOLO.] Now that was just a small variation. Instead of [PLAYS SOLO], I went. I slid into
it.
Now, I can play an octave up too and find some new patterns. So I could go [PLAYS SOLO].
I'm also playing around in the mode then I decided that we were in. And there going to
be certain lines that are chromatic that sound good. You want to experiment a little bit
to see.
That sounds good. [HUMS MELODY] So find choice chromatic phrases and rhythmic embellishments
that will make your melody sound good and ready for solo.