Rhythm changes?

[henryrobinett]

do you mean the one from bags groove? sonny's solo off oleo is one of my favourite sax solos

That's the one. I love Rollins's solo.

[dingusmingus]

Don't forget Red Garlands solo. I do these with my students.

Yeah, I love Red Garland. So elegant and so swinging at the same time. I probably should transcribe him too!

This is a diversion, but since I've been doing more transcription lately, I've noticed that I can transcribe a chorus in an evening or two, but it takes weeks of practice to actually play the thing! I also try to extract licks to use more flexibly, but trying to play through a whole solo--or even one chorus--is a big time comitment for me. And that's not even getting it up to full speed. (I believe that version of Oleo clocks in around 260 BPM.)

[Reg]

Hey Christian... sure in the direction, but I'm simply using one approach, it's one concept. And the use of Different is pretty vague... the approach uses very simple physical related harmonies. They have very simple physical relationships, taking subs and extending the application usually gets very different tonally, as in your example.

And as always you can only play what you can play....Nothing to do with skill levels. If you can't feel basic jazz forms, you need to work on and get that together.

Tonal Targets can get as far away from the tune as one chooses, but that's not the point, generally the concept is used to stay basically tonal... at least from a jazz point of view. As with the great examples posted above from Henry, nick and dingamingus. You usually want to be in the harmonic and rhythmic groove. Tonal Targets is very easy method of using blue notes within an organized application... and not just be random embellishments.

When one decides to play Bb blues through the "A" section of bop changes... what is he or she doing? Or when one plays one tonal reference through a chord progression that really has a few...

[pushkar000]

Comp in multiple positions and keys to really absorb the harmony. Listen over and over to many versions.
Once you can hear the harmony, automatically your solo will make more sense.

At least in the beginning, learn or make some stock phrases when you're in trouble.