Building Solo Lines from Cells

Building Solo Lines from Cells is a practical method for developing the ability to create convincing jazz solos in a wide variety of playing situations. It takes actual jazz lines recorded by master players and slices them into "cells" that can be re-combined into longer lines to fit almost any harmonic situation. This enables players to improvise lines that sound just as interesting and melodic as the masters without simply resorting to copying others. Some of the harmonic situations covered include: fast-moving cycles such as the bridge of Jordu; chromatic II-V changes; turnarounds, including many that are useful in dealing with rhythm changes; Jimmy Heath's C.T.A changes and John Coltrane's Giant Steps changes. In addition, slower moving II-Vs are covered using various strategies for stringing together the short cells into long flowing lines, and much, much more!