{"id":596,"date":"2013-09-30T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2024-11-26T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:51:09","slug":"5-essential-jazz-guitar-soloing-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/5-essential-jazz-guitar-soloing-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Essential Jazz Guitar Soloing Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning how to play jazz guitar means building up a well rounded improvisational vocabulary, and one way this can be achieved is by learning licks. But, as beneficial and useful as licks are, there is a lot of information within one phrase to take out and shed, and guitarists often fall into the trap of just playing the lick the same way as the recording.<\/p>\n

In this lesson, I have written out 5 of the most frequently used patterns found within classic jazz guitar licks and famous solos. Learning each of these jazz patterns<\/a> will ensure that you have the right tools for creating jazz guitar licks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/span>\n

Jazz Guitar Soloing Patterns 1 – Honeysuckle Rose Motif<\/h2>\n

Jazz musicians often quote the melody of a tune within their solo, but one melody that\u2019s probably the most quoted within any solo\u00a0is the Honeysuckle Rose phrase.<\/p>\n

The example below shows the first bar of the Honeysuckle Rose melody, which is repeated throughout the first 4 bars of the tune.<\/p>\n

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Jazz musicians often use this phrase within their solos because it works well as an interesting piece of jazz language by itself.<\/p>\n

This original Honeysuckle Rose motif is often varied, and I have included two common adaptations of the phrase below for you to check out.<\/p>\n

The first example is almost the same as the original but has one additional note added in (G).<\/p>\n

The second variation has a \u2018B\u2019 on 1+, which in conjunction with C and Bb provides a nice chromatic movement that starts the phrase.<\/p>\n

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Almost every jazz musician uses the Honeysuckle Rose motif in some way, but two of the best examples are Charlie Parker<\/a> and Grant Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Grant Green\u2019s solo on \u201cI\u2019ll Remember April\u201d is a perfect example of how to vary the honeysuckle rose motif throughout a solo. Listen to the track below and count how many times Grant plays the honeysuckle rose motif in the first chorus alone.<\/p>\n

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