7 Ways to Improve Your Soloing - Peter Martin & Adam Maness | You'll Hear It S4E50

Got a session or gig tonight but feel like your solos have been lackluster lately? Adam and Peter give you 7 ways to make your solos stand out.

7 Ways to Improve Your Soloing:
1. Listen
2. Transcribe
3. Learn tunes & phrases (or even whole solos) in different keys
4. Be fearless
5. Omit the bad parts of your solo
6. Interact with the drummer
7. Pay attention to architecture in the world and apply it tor your playing

The theme song for You'll Hear It is Peter Martin's "Emotion in Motion":

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[TonyWinston]

Some classical musicians do know and think about the chord changes. those who dont will have a harder time memorizing and will be more ' on a tightrope ' when performing.

[teemukekkonenmusic]

Somebody great said something like "I still feel fear but I've learned to go towards it, not run from it". Great podcast guys!

[jarbasgoulartdecastro]

Hi, Peter!!! Play !!!! I love to hear you!!!!

[tunaficiency]

So true about fear of failure I’ve got a student who was scared of impro so learnt a complete solo but obviously that makes playing so much more demanding and you can tell straight away it’s learnt, so come the jazz club night the wheels came off straight away and then if you haven’t practiced impro there’s no way back. Sometimes people have to find out the hard way

[jacksonmanning]

The first solo im transcribing is cannonballs solo from autumn leaves because it's my favorite. I've already learned so much (big concept-wise) just from the first few bars!

[wilddjango]

What about the bass! The glue of Music!

[guidemeChrist]

Just play the Bb blues scale and feel it lol