I have 12 bars to solo, not 8 or 16 bars

[Music_for_life]

I am soloing over a song that is a pop, melodic song refering to vocals but with a lot of fusion elements and progressive elemnts, jazz elemens, like solos, complicated chord progressions, athmosphere.
What do you think about changing the usual way of depveloping a solo in Fusion over 16 and 32 bars to 12??
I like it this way cause it is not so long for the kind of song and not so short like 8 bars...
If you have any example please tell
Thanks

[M.Wrenn]

So your point is shorter solos? That seems kind of irrelevant to me. An extra four bars isn't much longer, doesn't seem to change much.

Personally, I like open solos, let the idea develop as it will.

But definitely not in pop rock haha

[Spaldo]

Sounds more like a 'break', not a 'solo'...

Perhaps treat it more like a brief diversion from the main song. But you only have 12 bars, so don't put too much information in there...

[M.Wrenn]

Originally Posted by Spaldo

Sounds more like a 'break', not a 'solo'...

Perhaps treat it more like a brief diversion from the main song. But you only have 12 bars, so don't put too much information in there...

Agreed

[Music_for_life]

I really like the Jaco influence and jeff berlin I have there, it has interesting phrases, with an athmosphere and fusion keyboard chords and changes..I cannot change that
They are 4 bars of the drums playing toms in a climatic way and 8 bars where the drum give a more emotive feeling , the next 4 bars the singer start singing still in a climatic way...then to carry the song to a bridge
After that the song explodes again..
It is a slow song 82 bpm...I play some Jaco type licks inspired from the solo of continum...especially the last 6 bars of the solo, the first part of it is more melodic

[Music_for_life]

The thing is that before it was a 8 bar break of the guitar....I liked how a bass solo would sound there and we are choosing between both versions