How to Solo on "Isn't She Lovely"

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[@JeffSchneiderMusic]

Got any suggestions for this series? What song would you like to learn how to solo on next?

[@positivefingers1321]

Please do heart and soul!

[@dennis_johnson]

Still Feel like your man by John Mayer please!

[@johnny1086]

Jeff Schneider some Duke Ellington stuff? Satin doll maybe

[@BurntMcgurnt]

Pat metheny see the world!

[@sergej100qca4]

Be-bop or Rhythm changes

[@the.yangster]

Great video! One suggestion is to include the chord changes on the screen as you're playing. I think that would be helpful!

[@cian.horgan]

Would also love to see this

[@devin5550]

Me too

[@positivefingers1321]

Dang, soloing is a skill I wanna learn and you’re the best to teach me

[@SantiCmusic]

The pace of this video was so good. Didn't over explain anything, and every tip was either 1) a refreshing reminder or 2) useful to learn. 9 minutes flew by, that was really great!

[@jamesrobinson529]

I predict that this is going to be massively huge! I can't wait to see more.

[@klop123rt]

A song suggestion for improvising I would say would be Autumn leaves something I want to tackle coming up for jazz band or Georgia on my mind.

[@lesliengo]

spain, strasbourg st. denis, something about us, u remind me, let me love you

[@gabriel_levi]

The timing of this video is too clutch! Thanks for the lesson.

[@klop123rt]

Ty so much I'm playing this for a gig this saturday! I have always been a fan since 9th grade of this page man and you’re like an inspiration. I play saxophone and piano as well so I watch a lot of your videos because you’re like the perfect instructor and everything is just understandable

[@thebomontellano4996]

Awesome lesson.

[@InsideRichie]

Great video! I believe "just the two of us" would be a cool song for this section :)

[@leonardomarini2490]

You’re great! Could you please make a video on how to improvise on sunny?

[@markjaylandes]

Your keyboard patch sounds similar to Steely Dan's King of the World solo. Can u do a video on how to solo over that song please?

[@vanandmunter181]

I would 100% become a patron if getting a song request for this series was a reward

[@frankahennes3914]

I literally have to improvise over it in two days and haven’t practiced yet so this really comes in time for me haha thanks!

[@dai-wav]

Franca H GOO PRACTICE!!

[@musicfan1264]

Great idea for a series. I'm sure you will help a lot with your pointers

[@guenther-fusion]

Fantastic !!!

[@jkseattle5654]

It is absolutely insane how rich your content is. I mean...insane. I share it with all my musician friends. Thank you.

[@everetthayes5851]

excellent video!

[@hamiltonquintana8645]

Very simple and understandable... I love it. You the best.

[@mateodipizzo]

What a surprising keybord tone ! Great video, can't wait to watch the next 'how to improvise on...'

[@danielkromopawiro1822]

Hello Maestro you are really fantastic , amazing , incredible musician . I am watching your very good vidéo on FB thank so a loth .

[@andrewwright6893]

Very nice thanks very much

[@pianostudentsemper]

Great video

[@azirusS]

great thank you !!

[@robertshenton]

Dude, you have a great camera/lighting setup!

[@lpulotu]

Love your work ethic, makes me want to emulate it.

[@wadesharp11]

Dude! Thank you thank you! We need more of these type of lessons please ..Do “sunny” please...Thanks

[@dominicvaldez616]

This was very helpful and fun to try thank you so much Jeff 😌

[@RetiOrchid58]

This also reminds me of Jazz Duets' video on Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity in the verse (it appears virtually the same chords following the circle of fourths etc as Isn't She Lovely) and with a melody from the Eb minor Pentatonic in that case.

[@Valle_Z]

very useful for me, thx man

[@kentower]

I Love that Song. Will try this later this week, so cool, Thank you very much!!!

[@cristinasayavedra5721]

I love your videos, I'm your number one fan of Argentina. Many kisses and hugs!!

[@yoelhooper-antunez1016]

This sounds like an awesome, much needed series. Keep up videos thanks!

[@motoxaust6]

I love this series! Thank you!!!

[@saturnosinanillos]

Great lesson! Thank you!

[@AB-wl5oc]

instant like, now lets watch the video

[@FeonaLeeJones]

Thanks for this awesome tutorial!

[@raymondmahlangu4670]

Hi love the breakdown of the improv approach. Can you please breakdown lately by GB and improv approach.

[@michaelfeeney9147]

great series!

[@StevenMartinGuitar]

This was great, please do some more of these

[@KhaanMuadDib]

Hey Jeff! Great video. One thing that was a bit confusing was that you were using #'s in your speech about the song but the keys onscreen mostly read flats. Nitpicky thing but it would be a great fix. Thanks for the amazing content!

[@Jdogg5343]

Classic tune! Been playing it for years! Glad you are doing this series and excited to hear some other soloing tools on great tunes! Glad I subbed!

[@Braillionaire]

Mad nice! Thank you for the video bro! Will be grabbing that backing track as well! Such a blessing to be subbed to your channel!

[@jayshi1137]

Love the video. Exactly what I was looking for.

[@NikkElektrik]

Great video Jeff, as always you have some of the best jazz education content on KZbin!

[@sergLEDwalls]

Yes!! First one to like!! Thanks for all of your videos bro 😊👍

[@hihighsax]

I love this video! Want more any series!

[@BurntMcgurnt]

Man nice to see ya back jeff !

[@Nerdboy456]

i love you jeff

[@rabbirelax]

Great stuff!

[@johnny1086]

Awesome stuff! Made sure to sign up for the master class!

[@cassroberts1472]

Great video. Seems like a cool series.

[@HypedropLover]

Great video !!! Very helpful.

[@ScottInk]

This is fire! Stellar content!

[@warren1322]

Master, your job is great, I have learn too much from you, thank you, I would like to be your student but I dont speak english. greetings from colombia and God blessyou.

[@SteveCrozier]

Great stuff, thanks! Small suggestion? Your patch with slow attack is kind of annoying in this context. Minor detail, though. Thanks again!

[@JulianFernandez]

great idea. thanks!

[@EdokLock]

As long as you post, u get my likes regardless

[@ethanmaruyama1149]

Love the camera quality

[@spacebar-music]

Super helpful!!

[@composer7325]

Excellent, thank you.

[@AyoSolanke]

Thank you for the video, can you make a video on Giant steps? thanks

[@sp4gsus]

You knew that was coming!

[@echobeats1706]

Ayo Solanke Giant Steps is a hard tune to solo on, teaching how to solo over it to entry starting jazz musicians would be even harder.

[@sorenfue7306]

Awesome vid! Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

[@defgecd6588]

You should do: “How to solo over Giant Steps by John Coltrane” Them some fuNkY jaZZ chorDS

[@ChrisValera]

How to solo on "Spain" and "Song for my Father" please.

[@ariesmakesfire2566]

Great Idea

[@hippo6941]

Great video thanks a lot ! I think you could push a little bit further the theory but that's just my opinion. Songs to improvise on could be songs such as "People,get up and drive your funky soul" by James Brown, "Fly me to the Moon", "Superstitious" by Stevie Wonder, "Everybody Wants to be a Cat", "Hit the Road Jack" or even "Sweet Home Chicago" by the Blues Brothers !! Hope you'll take these ideas into account ..!

[@larsuk9578]

Great video and content, thanks. Much prefer the a Monarch lead sound you used on other vids though 😊

[@leowright8016]

Thank you for sharing 🎶🎶🎷✌🏽😎🎹

[@TLMSif]

Hope you gonna do a long run series

[@oscargronroos4626]

I like this series!! Congratz:) I would recommend "Right out loud" with Andreas Aleman:)

[@BillyMac812]

I am not trying to be difficult, but as someone very interested in training my ear; I am having trouble hearing the notes due to the keyboard effect/tone. When you sang with the melody, I actually heard the notes more clearly. Probably just something on which, I need to continue to work. However, since I do enjoy your content, I am hoping to give some constructive feedback. Thanks for the great videos.

[@B-Frosty97]

I've found that it's much easier to separate the note from it's 'tone' when it's more familiar. For example hearing notes better on a piano compared to a guitar. I've also found that it sorts it self out as your ear improves.

[@seags937]

Small suggestion to make it easier if someone is skipping around or rewinding in your video. When you go to the soloing examples could you write at the bottom what technique you are using?

[@camillelenoble6251]

Hey jeff ! Could you teach us how to solo on Sir Duke ? That'd be amazing !

[@positivelyprogressing]

Always coming strong with the best videos and the tastiest lines! Awesome breakdown pal!

[@Emanuele_Golfini]

Great video, clear and really useful, could you do Satin Doll by Duke Ellington on the next episode?

[@bryonhankins7374]

Can you do a work-up of "I can't help it"?

[@klop123rt]

TY SO MUCH

[@Gruskinator]

So many comments about Giant Steps... there are already hundreds of videos on youtube about soloing over it and I don't know what new content he would be able to talk about that hasn't already been discussed to death.

[@davidbadiola3005]

Subbed. Sick video concept

[@shashinthamonteiro8107]

Well done Bro

[@colinmcnamara344]

ITs like you read my mind, i literally had just finished learning this song....

[@keithshapiro]

I've been using Amaj (C# minor[vi]) then over the F#7 C# Dorian because the Bb sounds so good there and over the Ab7b13 using A Melodic Minor. Way more thinking but as you said Jeff, sing the melody and play it. Probably the best advice of all really. Of course, phrasing is key over changes that move this fast but there's so much to do in this tune. Cdim arpeggio sounds dynamite as a sub for the Melodic minor scale. I find Harmonic minor is too ethnic for it. Just my 2 cents. Great tune to focus on. I remember when I started running solo's over this one. I could hear it all but didn't know how best to find it. Ya gotta walk through it. :)

[@lopezzy8429]

Can you test out improv on "Something About Us" by Daft Punk :O

[@TitusMaz]

Brilliant analysis ! Any specific reason why you prefer to say C# Harmonic minor over the G# instead of calling it G# Phrygian dominant ? Wouldn't the latter be a bit more straightforward to express the resolution from G#alt to C#m7 ?

[@LowReedExpert1]

I've found most people use that since more people know the parent scale and there's one normal name. Personally I prefer to call it Spanish Major, but many others say Phrygian Dominant, and some others even Melodic Major b2(this just seems clunky though) All a matter of getting folks to learn a note set that they can then shift the note focus, rather than 7 scales per scale pattern. At least that's what I've been told E.g Some folks will find the scale of "Melodic minor on 7" faster than "Superlocrian" and vice versa

[@MaggaraMarine]

Really depends on if you want to relate it to the chord or the key. The B section starts in the key of C#m (bVI-V-i), so relating it to the key makes a lot of sense. When I think of G# Phrygian dominant, I think of a song with G# as the tonic (more of a "flamenco" sound), for example the A section in "La Fiesta" would be a context where I would call the scale E Phrygian dominant instead of A harmonic minor, because the A section is clearly centered around E, not A. But sure, if you want to relate everything to just the chord that you are playing over at the moment, then G# Phrygian dominant would make sense. C# harmonic minor just tells you more about the overall context - it's a functional progression, so the context of the harmony matters, not just the individual chord that you are playing over, and in this case the context is a bVI-V-i progression in the key of C# minor.

[@andrescuneo4370]

Pls how to solo over giant steps

[@Jimt0n]

This is awesome stuff. What I'm curious about is why C# harmonic minor works over that chord? Can you use the harmonic minor from a 4th above on any dominant chord or is it specifically this one? Is it to do with how it sits over the underlying E major harmony and because the iii is not normally a III7 but acting as a secondary dominant to the following C#, with the non diatonic notes it brings lining up with C# minor? And lastly does that mean we're using the harmonic minor as a sort of framework but really playing the mode of C# from the fifth degree of harmonic minor, G# phrygian dominant? Thanks Jeff!

[@freewilly4242]

Rhythm changes

[@markhancock8045]

Great stuff. How about Georgia on my mind?

[@thegiftedhandsmusic]

We might have to do a reharm for this song since it seems to never get old lol

[@gbattle]

There are a number of different approaches to solo over this that you missed, most notably, in bars 13 and 14, when it's holding on the A/B (or Bsus), Stevie very frequently improvises using E minor pentatonic/E minor blues scale. It's all over the original track in the harmonica solo at the end. That said, love the idea of a series for this, but you should ask folks to add MORE solo approach options in the comments.

[@zackrickabaugh5456]

Some skunk funk, giantsteps

[@benlyon8900]

How to solo on “Spain” please

[@zurckoni]

How about "Naima" by Coltrane?

[@Dolla5101]

What’s that chromatic bebop lick that I hear all the greats do on a tune like this.

[@paulcantdesign]

Spain or Strasbourg st denis!!!

[@showler1132]

What do you think about approaching soloing by thinking about the chord tones instead of a scale that covers all of the chords? It just feels more natural for me but I don't know if it has any advantages or disadvantages in comparison to improvising with specific scales in mind.

[@svenbartenev7401]

Could you do a solo one for a bass for example, on a song like sunny, with James Brown for example

[@Wggrant1]

Jeff, could you do a "How to" on Stevie's "I Can't Help It," the old Michael Jackson hit?