[JohnW63]

Hatamoto,

It's not that I get lost because the solo seems to be over a none melody section, it's that when the melody is not very obvious, and it's not being fed to me as I play, I lose my place and sometimes lose the feel and drop into boring , unrelated scale stuff. Playing along with the recording is fun. Keeping all the good stuff in my head at those sections when it's not there is tough.

I think I've learned to solo reactive-ly and not from stuff internally. I think I play by sound and not by knowledge of what we are doing and what will work with it. " I see, this section would work great with a melodic minor scale and as long as I highlight the key notes as the chords change, it should sound pretty good. " And then go work out a cool solo keeping those ideas in mind.

Andyrondack,

My instructor has done Jazz stuff since he was a teenager, I think, and has little trouble playing in and around the chords, often at an impressive clip on that bass of his. I have asked him why he played certain things in his solos, after the fact.