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www.mattwarnockguitar.com Learning how to play jazz guitar means leaning how to bring different textures into your soloing ideas. While many of us want to learn how to bring chord-soloing phrases into our playing, we often shy away from working on this skill in the practice room since we believe that chord soloing means using big, hard to play play chords to create cool-sounding chord solos. But, often times less is more when it comes to building effective chord solos, and bringing chord soloing lines and phrases into your solos and chord-melody phrases. In todays lesson, well be looking at how you can use double-stops, two-note ideas, to build cool-sounding and effective chord solos, without having to bring larger chords into the equation. If you have avoided learning chord-soloing techniques because you thought it would be too difcult. Or you have worked out larger chord forms and are looking to bring a new texture to your chord-soloing ideas, then checking out this double-stop chord solo over Watermelon Man may be just the thing to take your playing to the next level. In order to fully learn this solo, try breaking it down into four-bar phrases and learning each one before putting the solo together as a whole. This will help you ease into the larger solo, while getting a chance to dissect and absorb the material behind each phrase at the same time. So grab your axe and have fun!
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Throughout the etude, you will notice that there are moments, such as the 4th beat of the second bar in this phrase, where I use a hammer-on in the recording between Ab and A. Since adding slurs such as this might not be for everyone, I left them out of the notation. But, feel free to add in hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides where you see t. You can either listen to the audio below to get an idea of how I use slurs to spice up these lines, or come up with approaches of your own. As long as your taste and musical ears says its cool to add in slurs, then go for it.
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Click to hear audio for the Watermelon Man Chord Solo Etude.
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So you can see, you dont have to use large, 3, 4 or 5-note chords to build a cool sounding and effective chord solo. After you work this solo out in the practice room, try coming up with your own doublestop based solos over Watermelon Man, or any tune you are working on in the woodshed. And, if you do learn the solo, feel free to record a video or audio version of you playing the solo and post in on the Matt Warnock Guitar Facebook Page for others to check out. Check out this solo in the woodshed this week and have fun!
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