Soloing

G altered from the inside: the seven chords hiding in the scale, a ii V I line built on each one, and all seven…

Nine ii V I lines in C, from diminished and altered sounds to 7-to-3 resolutions, plus how to split, mix and sing them until…

Five zoomed-in exercises to spell every chord, and three zoomed-out ones to hear the whole A section as one big sound, all in B…

Zoom out to the key, map the centers, learn the melody, find the anchor points, then build up from triads to 7ths to chromatic…

Get minor, major and blues colors from one A minor pentatonic box, and shift between minor and major the way BB King, Albert King…

Drop the 2 chord, descend the dominant scale, and add chromatic notes in three spots so chord tones land on the beat. Here’s the…

Five chords, one key center, one F minor pentatonic box. Then five more restrictions that expand it: one string, the blues note, upbeats, double…

Keep the five-note pentatonic and move its center: inside centers, mixed centers, then tension centers on the dominant of a ii-V-I that resolve sweetly.

One scale, one restriction at a time: one string, one interval, one position, one subdivision. That’s how a C major scale starts sounding like…