Autumn Leaves (Jazz Guitar Live)

[lucky one]

Hi all,

It has been a few month since my last post, but I'm still working on a jazz cover set on guitar, and I finally managed to play it live
I had the pleasure to perform a 1 hour live at a local Bar during the "Jazz Off week" in my town. The weather was perfect and the café terrace was filled with happy people :-)

Tell me what you think
Thanks,
Luc

[James W]

Nice, but you could work on acquiring some soloing vocabulary IMO.

[AllanAllen]

Coming along nicely.

I especially like what you did around 2 minutes with the chords and sparkling bright tone. And the motif around 3:45.

You stay close to the melody throughout the solo so it comes off like Ahmad Jamal, instead of lost noodling. That’s a good move. I do the later, thinking I’ll be big and clever but I can end up lost until someone taps their head to save me

[JazzPadd]

Nice! I agree about staying close to the melody. Quite refreshing.

And I enjoyed how your ad-lib phrasing breathes. Very natural.

The setup works well. Can you tell us about the backing track?

[lucky one]

Nice, but you could work on acquiring some soloing vocabulary IMO.

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated! Do you have suggestions on the best way to acquire some soloing vocabulary ? I have never been thinking along that way but it looks interesting

Luc

[lucky one]

Coming along nicely.

I especially like what you did around 2 minutes with the chords and sparkling bright tone. And the motif around 3:45.

You stay close to the melody throughout the solo so it comes off like Ahmad Jamal, instead of lost noodling. That’s a good move. I do the later, thinking I’ll be big and clever but I can end up lost until someone taps their head to save me

That's a good point, I have been thinking of the audience that is usually more interested by the main theme than the improv. I need to check if I do the same in the other tracks :-D

[lucky one]

Nice! I agree about staying close to the melody. Quite refreshing.

And I enjoyed how your ad-lib phrasing breathes. Very natural.

The setup works well. Can you tell us about the backing track?

Finding good backing track is very difficult, I used this one found on youtube and edited it to fit the structure I wanted:

[James W]

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated! Do you have suggestions on the best way to acquire some soloing vocabulary ? I have never been thinking along that way but it looks interesting

Luc

I'm not sure there's a best way as such, but transcription is the first thing that springs to mind.

Then there are scale exercises, composing lines and things like hexatonic scales. Work on varying lines/licks you learn. You want to connect what you hear to the fretboard and bring theoretical things to life - and vice versa.

Not that I'm an expert or even barely competent with this stuff, as you could find out if you check out any of my own videos (I too posted recently my own video of Autumn Leaves). I am still very much working on this stuff - but I think my sources for this advice are sound.

[GuyBoden]

Well done, nice, but too many twangy notes in most of your phrases for my taste.

Paul Wilkinson has very good Pro Backing Tracks:
Autumn Leaves
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