How to Solo on "All of Me" and Sound GOOD

[@jazzman_10]

If my solo starts after another solo, I try to pick up his last line or play something similar. It sounds as if I was trying to expand on his idea so it makes sense so the listener.

[@quentinmorales]

My favourite moment like that in a recording is in moanin, played by art blakey and the jazz messenger. Benny Golson pick up where Lee Morgan just left and it's really smooth. Listening to another take I discovered that it was actually planned because the same two phrases are there. Anyway I love this effect

[@rome8180]

What a brilliant, well crafted melody "All of Me" has. The use of repetition and subtle variation is textbook stuff. You get that same three-note descending pattern interrupted by triplets over the first three chords. And each descending pattern outlines the chord tones while always landing on that low E the chords have in common. And then you get that surprise note with the B flat over the A, which adds tension before it's released in the two-note tag over the D chord. Just timeless craftsmanship.

[@marvinkmooneyoz]

All of me and blue Monk are the two super simple jazz tunes that I regularly perform when I am leading the gig. Creativity can emerge out of any form. It is up to the person to channel it in the moment. Most musicians to seem to have an idea of how they think music, including solo should start, but I’ve always been of the disposition that you can start from anywhere, and it is up to you to figure out where to go from there

[@donj3224]

Great video!! I really like your approach…

[@hahabass]

That was brilliant. Thank you, Jeff.

[@SaschaOnBass]

I always love your content! You are one of the best educators out there imho.

[@IRACEMABABU]

It's very important to let your brain independantly decide what will happen first. We play Jazz, that means we improvise. We have to fight the willingness to control all. Improvising means to take risks, the bigger one being letting speak the unconscious in our brain, but the only place where creativity is. We can see all our dayly training just as a mean to provide the right tools for our creativity to show up. Be cool with your brain, let it speak freely !

[@bebopisthetruth]

Excellent video, love it.

[@larsuk9578]

Great video as always, thanks. It’s a very interesting topic as I always wonder how to start a solo… even on a seemingly simple chord progression like this one, it’s not always straight forward to know how to approach it if you want to come up with new ideas every time. Also some nice repetitions and enclosures in there 😊

[@petercontarino646]

Really excellent thank you!

[@obisraelngawani1373]

what is the app you're using to record your solos

[@CathyKreger]

Really Great!

[@DovidM]

Some of You is a contrafact of All of Me. I almost never play Autumn Leaves straight because audiences have specific expectations about how it should be played (the tempo, for example). Instead, I play a contrafact that lets me approach the song as I want to.

[@JonathanRouach]

Ok you win, I'm subscribed. How is the algo so good? Also how are you so good? Basically thank you

[@DaddySantaClaus]

First bars I always develop the melody and work from there. Then ideas will flow, unless if it's one of those horrible days. Nevertheless, All my favourite jazz players do that. Or a motif and develop from there.

[@sturdychinfilms]

I just play Sidney Bechet's solo note for note.

[@DESIGNS-vo1mt]

This is awesome

[@jazminethel1477]

Sería genial con subtitulos en español!!! Porfavor!!!!

[@chechoaus]

Si vas a los settings de la pantalla de youtube y seleccionas Subtitulos - Auto traducción - Inglés --> Español, te saldrán los subs en español. Saludos.

[@urobos99]

brilliant! thx Jeff!

[@fernandoreina6201]

ufffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff cosa bella

[@abecadlo6556]

what program did you use for writing sheet music in this video?

[@TheBrightSide101]

Musescore

[@lucaslieberman7867]

first! great video

[@ben251]

Amazing thumbnail! also it looked like magic seeing you resolve what sounded unusable

[@МаксимХайрун]

You look absolutely like late Bill Evans😂

[@LuisJimenez-nd2pl]

Some of You... Haha

[@charlexguitar]

Some of You hhaha

[@Mr.Caribe]

Nice video but stupid flag the one behind,

[@ElectricEddieDaus]

Sorry to say, but I thought that the Melody was absolutely awful... It made NO Sense. I'm not exactly sure what your point was. Some of the notes were even out of Key, even when used as passing tones.... LOL......😎

[@bebopisthetruth]

Watch it again. The point is to not sweat your first few notes; you can work with what you have and develop it even if you get off to a shaky start. And that was a really shaky start!