Soloing Masterclass
Minor Line Concepts
“This is my first Jay Umble master class purchase and I'm extremely impressed and inspired. There's a lot of good stuff here and I particularly like how Jay gives so many musical ex…”
About this masterclass
Jay Umble teaches an arsenal of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic approaches for building minor lines, using G minor 7 as the recurring tonality throughout. His stated aim: "become a sculptor of sound to create any effect you want."
Jay begins by viewing the entire fretboard as one chord, identifying the areas guitarists tend to avoid when soloing over a Gm7 and building the confidence to create solos seamlessly across the neck. He emphasizes targeting chord tones so you can play effortlessly both inside and outside, using what he calls random points of entry — starting a line diatonically or non-diatonically at will. He also contrasts scalar playing (easier for the listener to follow) with intervallic playing (which the ear tracks less accurately), showing where wilder, more outside tonalities can be created — and how to get away with the occasional "avoid" note.
What's covered
- Approach setups — short and long
- Altered dominant ideas
- Viewing chord shapes across the neck for greater fluidity
- Fifths harmony for ultra-modern sounds
- Single-string soloing ideas
- Knowing intervals in relation to the root in every position
- Gaining control over randomness to build more interesting lines
Jay's approach is friendly and relaxed, and these concepts are presented in a way players can easily adapt to their own style. Includes 10 pages of written materials in standard notation and TAB. Running time: 83 minutes.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1Minor Line Concepts1h 22m
Reviews & Ratings
"Lyrical, chromatic and flowing lines!"
This is my first Jay Umble master class purchase and I'm extremely impressed and inspired. There's a lot of good stuff here and I particularly like how Jay gives so many musical examples throughout the entire video. There's a lot of interesting concepts that he introduces in between the main points including 'setups' and various ways to add chromatic ideas into the lines. There are also 40 different lines (within funk and swing rhythmic context) that is included in the PDFs that I'll be checking out to understand more about his approach as well. Thank Jay & Mike's Masterclasses for making such an awesome video.
Another tremendous, info-packed class. Jay Umble takes those students with an already moderate knowledge of the fingerboard through a multitude of ideas for creating your own personal ideas over a simple G minor chord. He breaks the neck down into 5 positions, and by going through ideas such as side-slipping, superimposing ideas from the related dominant chord (C7) and the relative major (Bb ma), adding chromatics resolving to targeted chord tones, related triads over G minor, and many more, Jay gives the advancing student all he can handle. This class is sure to open eyes and ears, and is HIGHLY recommended!!
best I have seen....Jay really digs into what you need to improvise over minor....great outside concepts...just what the Dr. ordered!...thank you Jay
Another amazing lesson class Thank You Jay for Give US incredibile ideas , tricks and inspiration <br /> Fulvio
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