Architecture of a Solo - #27
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Peter Martin
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🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Adam. |
| 0:01.6 | Do you like buildings? |
| 0:03.4 | I do like buildings. |
| 0:04.3 | Do you like architecture? |
| 0:05.3 | I have my own set of blueprints at home for every building I've ever lived in. |
| 0:09.0 | Why are we talking so soft? |
| 0:10.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:10.6 | Okay. I'm Adamannis. |
| 0:25.7 | And I'm Peter Martin. |
| 0:26.6 | And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | Daily Jazz Advice coming at you. |
| 0:30.3 | Why are we whispering and why are we talking about buildings? |
| 0:32.8 | Well, because we're going to talk about architecture of a solo, which happens to be one |
| 0:37.2 | of my favorite subjects, |
| 0:38.3 | because I'm saying it all the time, and I think it's important, and I'm so glad. This is from a listener question, right? Yeah, this is from a listener named Anthony. He says, hi there. In the episodes that you guys have talked about transcribing, you've mentioned the architecture of a solo. Are there any ways of practicing soloing with the clear and logical architecture to it? |
| 0:36.1 | Or is there something most people intuitively come up with |
| 0:39.2 | or... Are there any ways of practicing soloing with the clear and logical architecture to it? |
| 0:55.1 | Or is there something most people intuitively come up with over time? |
| 0:59.4 | Thank you guys for all the awesome content. |
| 1:01.0 | So there are actually things you can practice to help with a clear and logical architecture. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, we have a good friend Sean Jones was in here, |
| 1:10.0 | and he had a great lesson on building a solo, the architecture of solo. He actually didn't sort of metaphorize it. That's not a word. I know what you say. I like it. He didn't use it as a metaphor, like architecture. He actually used a story. Yeah. And I think those similar concepts, but yeah, there's things you can do to practice that. Absolutely. And I mean, that's, he really goes into specific ways of practicing it and developing it. And I think the last part of the question, you know, does it just happen over time? And it's like one of these things, not necessarily. No, there's some players that can't do it in a long time. So I wouldn't say that now, you know, if you're listening to, it's kind of like learning a language. If you're listening to Italian from really good speakers, it's like, are you going to ever learn it just by listening? Not really. I mean, you'll pick up a little bit and you'll get better. But if you apply some practice techniques and you're listening to a lot, then you will get both sides. You know, you get the practical kind of development and you'll also get that kind of automatic development just by imitation stuff. But you've got to sort of, I think, dovetail it with some practical working, you know, real practical things, which we'll try to give you today in your practice routine. Yeah, let's break it down a little bit for you, Anthony. So wika chico, wika chica, break it down. Let's take a tune. Just take a simple maybe 32 bar tune that you know or a simple standard like autumn leaves or all the things you are or something like that and and create a |
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