7 Musical Devices That Will Give Your Solos Irresistible Style
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Inspiration, Jazz Advice and Tips, Playing Techniques
Open up a music theory book and you’ll likely find pages and pages of definitions. Terms like apogituras, retograde inversions, mordents, hemiolas, turns…Good information, but not exactly stuff that you’d want to put into your next solo. I mean what did stuffy old composers know about improvising anyway? But before you dismiss all that tedious …