Using Jazz Licks in a Melodic Solo - All The Things You Are

**wkriski** · 03-01-2014, 09:08 AM

I demo how you can use licks in a standard. Hope this helps.

**jojo** · 03-04-2014, 04:35 AM

Hi Will,

I really appreciate your video. This is a book that I worked on for some months but didn't know how to use it without cutting /pasting.
The comments that you put on the screen are very usefull but it's too fast at least for me to hear the part of the lick from the book and the part that you transformed.
May I ask you to do another lesson where you'd slowly play the same solo (or another) but demonstrating with your guitar how you used and adapted Greg Fishman's licks following "All The Things You Are" chords.

Best,

Jojo

**Melodic Dreamer** · 03-05-2014, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by jojo

Hi Will,

I really appreciate your video. This is a book that I worked on for some months but didn't know how to use it without cutting /pasting.
The comments that you put on the screen are very usefull but it's too fast at least for me to hear the part of the lick from the book and the part that you transformed.
May I ask you to do another lesson where you'd slowly play the same solo (or another) but demonstrating with your guitar how you used and adapted Greg Fishman's licks following "All The Things You Are" chords.

Best,

Jojo

I've ordered the book due to your recommendation and think this would be a very valuable addition in applying it to ones playing.

**wkriski** · 03-05-2014, 02:29 PM

I'm hoping to do more videos on this book and I was going to do a course or something where I explain a few ways to leverage the licks. If you pause the video I explain what lick I am using, and on YouTube you can slow the video down to 50% and still hear audio using the gear icon below the video.

**jojo** · 03-05-2014, 02:37 PM

Great news from things to come !

Thank you Will

**bluemusic4us** · 03-05-2014, 05:41 PM

Thanks for posting this. It's good stuff.
It should be noted that there is a version for guitar which has the great Chicago guitarist Mike Allemana playing the licks.

**wkriski** · 03-05-2014, 05:46 PM

Yep Mike's excellent - in the video I mentioned and linked to the Guitar version and in this video I show people how to connect and develop the licks as many people seem to get stuck after they learn the licks.

**NSJ** · 03-05-2014, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by bluemusic4us

Thanks for posting this. It's good stuff.
It should be noted that there is a version for guitar which has the great Chicago guitarist Mike Allemana playing the licks.

Different book that has 12 etudes each named after Chicago streets

**jazzgtrl4** · 03-05-2014, 05:56 PM

Hey Will, thanks. i ordered the book as well. thanks fro the recommendation.

**bluemusic4us** · 03-05-2014, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by NSJ

Different book that has 12 etudes each named after Chicago streets

I think it's the same book, just has Mike playing the examples.
Are we talking about this one?

http://www.amazon.com/Hip-Licks-Guit...ords=hip+licks

**NSJ** · 03-05-2014, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by bluemusic4us

I think it's the same book, just has Mike playing the examples.
Are we talking about this one?

http://www.amazon.com/Hip-Licks-Guit...ords=hip+licks

No I was referring to a 2008 book which is different.

**tribeo** · 03-05-2014, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by wkriski

... on YouTube you can slow the video down to 50% and still hear audio using the gear icon below the video.

I clicked on the only "gear icon below the video" that I see, and it only lets me turn annotations on/off and change the video quality, i.e. 720p, 480, etc. Am I missing something? Are you sure that is available to anyone watching your video? I think maybe that might just be for you while uploading your own video.

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**Melodic Dreamer** · 03-06-2014, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by tribeo

I clicked on the only "gear icon below the video" that I see, and it only lets me turn annotations on/off and change the video quality, i.e. 720p, 480, etc. Am I missing something? Are you sure that is available to anyone watching your video? I think maybe that might just be for you while uploading your own video.

Chrome has it but Firefox doesn't to my knowledge
Are you using the HTML5 player or the old one?

**tribeo** · 03-20-2014, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Melodic Dreamer

Chrome has it but Firefox doesn't to my knowledge
Are you using the HTML5 player or the old one?

I see the same thing in Chrome. I just verified that I have the latest version of Chrome 33.0.1750.154 m

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**wkriski** · 03-20-2014, 06:49 PM

No it works on many videos not just my own, that's what I use to transcribe other solos not just my channel. You could try to sign up for the html5 trial. https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=CA

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**AlsoRan** · 03-20-2014, 07:09 PM

Very intriguing concept you presented.

I am still wondering, are the solos in the two books the same? Does anyone know for sure?

(Now for the question that real Jazz guitarist don't like)

Does the guitar book have standard notation and guitar tablature?

Thanks!

**wkriski** · 03-20-2014, 08:05 PM

Thanks. It's fun. The solos are the exact same. But for sax I have to transpose it via Transcribe! The guitar version has tab and standard notation in concert pitch. I bought the sax version of licks when it first came out and figured out where I like to play them which takes more work but it's fun. I'll be getting the guitar version sent to me so I can show it on camera when it arrives.

**tribeo** · 03-21-2014, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by wkriski

No it works on many videos not just my own, that's what I use to transcribe other solos not just my channel. You could try to sign up for the html5 trial. https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=CA

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Awesome, thanks, that did it!

**AlsoRan** · 03-27-2014, 06:48 AM

Thumbs up to you for recommending this book!

I got it yesterday and I love the way the licks sound. It is Jazz the way I like it.

It gives a really great explanation full of suggestions on how to use it, and the CD is a great aid.

Instantly, I am making great music and my mind comes up with all kinds of other musical ideas that go along with the same mood the lick imparts on the solo.

I am ordering the other book by this author right now.

**ColinO** · 03-27-2014, 08:08 AM

I was thinking of getting the iPad app for this but is that going to require me to transcribe the licks into different keys?(ie it looks like the iPad app is written for sax.)

**jaco** · 03-27-2014, 10:04 AM

I just received the Etude book yesterday. Great material in here. Ordering the lick book today. Great post and thread.

**AlsoRan** · 03-27-2014, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by jaco

I just received the Etude book yesterday. Great material in here. Ordering the lick book today. Great post and thread.

jaco,

Are you able to identify the Jazz standards that the changes in the etude book are based on? For instance, I bet there is a Cm7, Fm7, Dm7b5, G7, Cm7, Ebm7, Ab7, DbMaj7, Dmin7b5, G7 or something similar that corresponds to "Blue Bossa" changes.

Thanks.

**jaco** · 03-27-2014, 11:39 AM

Listened to the whole CD on the way to work this morning. Can't say I heard Blue Bossa, but some others are on here. Will try to sit down and catalog them assuming someone else hasn't already.