Chord Tone Solo in A Minor
by Pedja Simovic
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Vasilije Vukmirovic13th October 2008Great lesson, you covered every part of the harmony beneath!
Bogdan Radovic13th October 2008Very nice lesson Pedja !! Cool solo ideas!
Emir Hot13th October 2008This is really cool with some great chord changes and target notes approach. Well done
Nazgul13th October 2008Well done, Pedja! This is a really cool solo!
Pedja Simovic13th October 2008Thanks guys !
Chord tones and arpeggios are very important so my intention was to present that in a musical way. Hope I managed to achieve it
Next lesson will be combination of everything so look out for that solo - can't wait to hear your opinion on that one!
Pedja
Ivan Milenkovic13th October 2008Very nice solo ideas, and theory lines.
ItsMe13th October 2008very helpfull. It's so important to really focus on the changes. That's my weakest side. So thanks for that lessen
Nemanja Filipovic13th October 2008Nice lesson mate.
- Pedja Simovic13th October 2008Very nice solo ideas, and theory lines.
Thanks Ivan!very helpfull. It's so important to really focus on the changes. That's my weakest side. So thanks for that lessen
I agree with you Chris. I am glad you checked it out. Would love to hear how you are doing with arpeggios and chord tones.Nice lesson mate.
Thank you Nemanja , (La Do Mi Do La)
Muris Varajic13th October 2008Sounds nice,smooth playing.
Capt.Z13th October 2008Very nice lesson!!
Vinod Saranga13th October 2008
Great Lesson Pedja
I love the 0:28 -0:32 chords progression.
kaznie_NL13th October 2008Thanks Pedja! Your jazz lessons give GMC a wider audience, that's great!
- Pedja Simovic13th October 2008Sounds nice,smooth playing.
Thanks Muris , I love your odd rhythm lesson. Very nice lesson!!
Thank you sir Great Lesson Pedja
I love the 0:28 -0:32 chords progression.
Thanks Vinod
Glad you love it , I love that part as well Thanks Pedja! Your jazz lessons give GMC a wider audience, that's great!
Hey kaznie thank you for that observation. I do my best , glad to see you guys appreciate my work . You welcome 
Gerardo Siere13th October 2008Fantastic lesson, we need more of this kind of lesson. I is very important in jazz that the melody reflects the harmonic changes behind them so it is very usefull to have several ways to aproach this, chord tones are so important, specially guide tones (3rds and 7nths), and also there is this stylistic thing, for melodies arpegios happens more often than step by step scales, and in harmonic progressions, the aproach to key changes is more subtle than in rock or fusion where you just jump where ever you want go go. Oftenly you can group several chords in relation of a target chord, so you can group all by using one scale with several "moving notes" (most of the time using the diatonic scale and altering it to match the chord tones will make the work) but if the articulations and aproach to chord tones and guide tones are not used I wont sound that jazzy. Also we must have in midn that in a 4/4 measure beats 1 and 3 are strong points for the harmonic time.
This is inspiring Pedja, I promise for November a lesson in the Style of Stan Getz and a collab about it for further discussion.
Dejan Farkas13th October 2008Nice and easy
Hisham Al-Sanea13th October 2008good job Pedja.very good idea
- Pedja Simovic14th October 2008Fantastic lesson, we need more of this kind of lesson. I is very important in jazz that the melody reflects the harmonic changes behind them so it is very usefull to have several ways to aproach this, chord tones are so important, specially guide tones (3rds and 7nths), and also there is this stylistic thing, for melodies arpegios happens more often than step by step scales, and in harmonic progressions, the aproach to key changes is more subtle than in rock or fusion where you just jump where ever you want go go. Oftenly you can group several chords in relation of a target chord, so you can group all by using one scale with several "moving notes" (most of the time using the diatonic scale and altering it to match the chord tones will make the work) but if the articulations and aproach to chord tones and guide tones are not used I wont sound that jazzy. Also we must have in midn that in a 4/4 measure beats 1 and 3 are strong points for the harmonic time.
This is inspiring Pedja, I promise for November a lesson in the Style of Stan Getz and a collab about it for further discussion.
Thank you Gerardo. I look forward to Stan Getz style lesson!Nice and easy
Yeah just the way we like it
good job Pedja.very good idea
Thank you Hisham appreciate it 
Gabriel Leopardi14th October 2008Nice solo and very interesting theory behind it!
Good job Pedja.- Pedja Simovic14th October 2008
Thank you Gabriel
Alex8715th October 2008Very nice lesson Pedja. Gives some nice various ideas of style to use the backing track for
- Pedja Simovic15th October 2008Very nice lesson Pedja. Gives some nice various ideas of style to use the backing track for
Thank you Alex, that was the idea and also to apply important concept of chord tones and arpeggios. - ItsMe16th October 2008
Since we are working already on arps what about a hexatonics lesson. I know how the scales are constructed from triads and so on, but using them is so much differnt
- Pedja Simovic17th October 2008
I will make sure to do at least couple of lessons for Hexatonics. I also replied to your topic on forums about that so check that out as well!
Daniel Realpe17th May 2010very useful
- Pedja Simovic20th May 2010
Thanks Daniel
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