Bass Soloing/Impro

[igntou]

Hi Janek my name is Ignacio and i want to ask you in term of soloing what i can do to improve my improvisation when there is a theme that it has a lot of chord changes or maybe not a lot but every measure is changing or in the same measure you have totally different chords that do not share the same scale for example right now i'm studying a jazz standard all of me, i first check every chord and the scale that belongs then check that measures with common scales, i also have heard something about the guide tones i know that they re kind of scale that moves up and down trough the changes and every note is a chord tone for each chord but i really don't know how to apply this guide tones and how i establish those guide tones through the chord changes? Also what do you do when you analyze a song in terms of soloing?

Thank you and Greetings from Costa Rica

 

[PaPaVB20]

Interested in the same subject! Eso Tou!

 

[MauroAbomai]

The guide tones will be the 3th and 7th of the chords. Try to study soloing using first only the guide tones, and then using all chord tones but with emphasis on 3th and 7h. Do this with using fixed rhythm figures or patterns as motifs. You will find some interesting melodic ways to navigate the changes.
I also find very helpfull to look for common tones in the chords of the changes, to keep "in my sleeves". This might get interesting, when for example you expand the written harmony, to make that, let´s say, C that is common for every arpeggio in the song, fit in that A7 on the third bar, and suddenly you have an A7(#9).

All of this, will help you navigate the changes in songs that has a lot of chords and fast changes, without that mechanical sound that we hear a lot of patterns beeing aplied over chords without melodic perspective.