Chord Tone Soloing Jazz Guitar Workout (Part 2: Exercises 5-9 on Solar by Miles Davis)

This video is a continuation of exercises to help you master chord tone soloing over progressions that change keys.

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💬 LESSON DESCRIPTION:
This is part two of my chord tone soloing series.
In part one, we did a series of exercises to memorize the arpeggio shapes for “Solar” by Miles Davis.
In this video, we finish my exercise series on chord tone soloing.
You can do this over any jazz tune.
In these exercises, we practice the arpeggios to a backing track, getting you closer to real improvisation.
This process will help you clearly visualize where the chord tones are, find voice leading, and improvise truly original music over any chord progression.
I hope you enjoy this lesson about chord tone soloing and find it beneficial.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Thanks! :)
- Jared

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📜 RULES OF THE GAME:
• Play chord tones only
• Play constant notes
• Continue in the same direction within each arpeggio shape
• Always resolve by half step if possible
• If you can’t resolve forwards by half step, resolve backwards
• If you can’t resolve by step, resolve by step from the second to last note
• If you can resolve by half step in both directions, choose either one
• Don’t get caught in a rut
• No looking at the progression
• Graces notes are allowed, but don’t give chromatic notes their own rhythmic duration
• Pass each exercise x times in a row without mistakes
• If you can’t resolve by step from the last or second to last note, continue in the same direction
• When you make a mistake, finish the form out of time before starting over

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🕛 VIDEO CONTENT OUTLINE (WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS):
00:00 - About this video
00:47 - Video outline
03:48 - Review part 1
05:21 - Rules of the game
17:09 - Exercise #5
23:26 - Exercise #6
25:46 - Exercise #7
27:57 - Exercise #8
30:23 - Exercise #9
32:15 - Free arpeggio shapes download
32:44 - Bonus tip!

[milorah]

Jazz has always been very intimidating to me, and it still is, but thanks to your videos now I know it's doable. I've watched hundreds of videos from different people on YouTube in English and Spanish and none comes even close to yours. All your teachings follow a very logical path, and your exercises seem hard as f***, but still doable if you put enough time and effort into it. Also, you never try to show off, while it is clear to all of us that you have the skills and knowledge for it. Thanks for all this great work.

[prabashri]

Thank bro.. i truly appreciate your hard work.

[clairethompson]

Jared thank you very much for this systematic drill. Trying to learn fretboard and this is going to help hugely! Thank you!

[Matt]

These lessons on Solar are amazing. Thanks a lot!

[micrps]

Your videos are super helpful to me, truly!

[MrHomerzinho]

Hey, Jared, thanks for your free material. To simplify my study, I am only playing a simple ii-V-I and following the rules on that before trying it on solar. Is it a good approach? I am thinking about buying your course. Are the exercises in it more "broken down", with simpler chord progressions/more steps in the ladder?

[richardblaylock]

Thanks for the great lesson, I appreciate the rigid rules. Is one unmentioned rule that you must switch notes when resolving? For example, if you're coming down an Eb major arpeggio and landing on the G, and you were moving to an AØ, you wouldn't stay on the G, you'd resolve backwards to the A?

[errezero]

Thanks Jared for this precious and structured approach, much appreciated!
Do you apply exactly the same rules even if the landing note is common to the two chords?
I am confused in the specific scenarios where the two chords have many notes in common and, following the rules, I would land onto a “common” note.
Would you target such note (even if it would not stress the change) or would you go ahead in the direction you were going (or jump even further back) so to seek a “unique” note of the destination chord? (I don’t know if I made myself clear..)

[amrajdhami]

At 19:30, should the phrase end on the '1 of Ab on fret 9'? Counting 3and4and from the C that starts the Ab part of the bar gets to me the Ab, not the Gb, or am I missing something? Great lesson btw, really good workout

[BL]

"If you can’t resolve forward by half step, resolve backwards"... just trying to understand the rules here... at about 19:30 in the video shouldn't the change from the Db note (on Dbmaj7) keep going 'forward' to the C note (on Dm7b5) instead of going 'backwards' to the D note? Great lesson, btw... thanks!

[sashasilin]

What happens if you end on a note of the following chord tone

[OmolemoTawana]

Must say this exercise is confusing, especially when the connecting parts