Originally Posted By: rockstar_not
...(and there's at least one non-mode note in the 3rd or 4th run through that actually sounds cool but will probably mark me down)...


Let me hit you with the old school "realtime remedy" for this problem.

"Relief is always only a half-step away."

In either direction, up or down, does not matter, just be ready to do it as soon as your mind - and not your ear - says, "uh-oh!". Waiting on the ear is too late, but sometimes happens. Just move that half step and keep on truckin' anyway. Don't. Stop. That merely serves to highlight, "I've just made a mistake." Never stop after the clunker. Make it finish a phrase. "Hey, did you guys hear me go outside on that?" - "Naw, I heard you get LOST, man!" (heh)

Keep that in mind when improvising and practice it.

That one little trick can turn a clam or clunker into nothing more than a transitional note.

From there, learn to work it via the arpeggio and not linearly and the problem soon becomes not a problem at all but can actually work in the soloist's favor.

And one more from the old schoolers:

"Whenever a problem arises, GO PENTATONIC!"

Use that Blues Scale interjection to get back on the straightahead track.


--Mac

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