Tuesday 1 January 2013


A cool thing to do is take a small melody...say a nursery rhyme or a bollywood melody. Take 4 notes from that tune,mutate them to be major,minor or dominant to get 3 ideas out of one. Take that motif and move it over the changes to your favorite tune.Do it for all the random melodies that come to your mind.Use these melodies as springboards to new ones. Try not to blindly play over changes with licks for the simple reason the next time you hear those chords you will be playing the same stuff. This is what makes people stop playing and listening. Use your own library of melodies ( and we know thousands),to make your own licks.

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