Just Friends, Part 2: Solo

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Learn to play jazz violin like the masters, with lessons on building solos for standard jazz songs using improvisational devices you can play anywhere. Aaron shows you how to use melodic variation, repeating motives, harmonic entry points, and more. Includes rhythm tracks, analysis of each solo, rephrasing suggestions, and more powerful tips.

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Pre-composed solos for jazz and swing standards, including “Honeysuckle Rose,” “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and more
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Melodic analysis and suggestions for rephrasing and variation
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Play-Along audio and video tracks for each song so you can play along with Aaron
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Notation of each solo along with analysis phrasing ideas

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Just Friends

Just Friends, Part 1: Common Tones

Just Friends, Part 2: Solo

Just Friends, Part 3: Play-Along Track

Just Friends, Part 2: Solo

Aaron takes you through his solo for “Just Friends” in this video. The solo incorporates numerous common tones between chord changes as the prominent tool for building the phrases, alternating with change tones, which you learned about in the previous lesson, on adjacent chords with no common tones.

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