Originally Posted By: Frankp


Key center soloing (one key or scale that fits over a series of chords)


I call that the, "modal troll" system. grin

Just a joke, for there are certain times and genres when this is the method that we *should* incorporate in order to stay faithful to the type of tune being played. Nuthin' worse than having to hear the newly learned straightahead player trying to force their newfound knowledge into a tune in which it just doesn't make sense.

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Chord scale theory (one scale per chord, the Berklee way of looking at things)



This is what I call the Entry Point to Straightahead Playing.

Once it can be done inside the octave, the serious student of the hing should start working it "from the 9 forward" while learning and hearing where to place the critical ALTERED notes along the way - and that is what is meant by true "straightahead" playing as exemplified in Bebop and Modern Jazz genres.

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Chord tone playing (targeting chord tones, arpeggios, chromatics,enclosures etc.)


I view this one as part of the above task, swince the chord tones or arpeggios are actually based on playing "every other note" from a given scale. The odd notes, that is.

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It's probably a good idea to practice all three of those approaches.


Abwolutely. Always striving to make that practice sound as musical as you can as opposed to that sound of simply running scales with no musical purpose. If you practice doing that, that is how you will sound when things get to where you must fall back on that which you've done by rote. blecch

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Ultimately you absorb all these ideas and then get to the point were you don't think of them anymore. It all just eventually becomes your music vocabulary.


"Learn it, forget it, then PLAY!" -- Charlie Parker said that.

Practice is what breeds our familiarity.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

And I mean that in a NICE way.

Familiarity, then, makes us capable.


--Mac

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