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Today’s lick is in F minor. Still trying to utilize newer shapes to work on them.

This is another 2-5-1 in Bb. Just working on guide tones and connecting them with chromatics for this one.

Today’s line is more chromatic and straight ahead jazz. I always gravitate toward the altered scale for functioning V chords, and have been trying to add more of the diminished scale, so that’s what I did for this one.

Still trying to write more lines with triads in them, here’s today’s effort. For the past few years I’ve starting practicing to a drum machine rather than a metronome, and I really like how it helps with phrasing. One stays there and you have to stick to it lol! Plus easier on the brain to listen to for long periods.

Today’s line uses some two octave 4 note cells- a little trick many different modern masters (Matt Otto, Gilad Hekselman) seem to use often. I love the shapes of each one, it makes each cell easy to visualize and hear. Try it out!

This one was difficult to get a good take of, as they all seem to be. I’m going for a Holdsworth esque type of run and I really like the fluid legato sound he used, not that this is any comparison haha.

This line is a 2-5 alt in Bb, using all 16th notes. Mostly thinking of minor pentatonics for each chord, which I think sounds neat.

This run is in Ab major, uses lots of chromaticism. I’m using the pico swell-o to get a touch of that Rosenwinkel attack.

Today’s lick is a slippery sounding run in G mixo. It was quite a challenge to get a clean take of it. I end up playing stuff like this in the “heat of the moment” on gigs, but have not (until now) worked out a real version of it that is repeatable.

Today’s line is in A Lydian. I like how you can play a mirror phrase starting of 7135, and #4579. shape wise it’s identical which is cool and easy to see. Another from my “lick of the day” series I’m challenging myself to. Also upped my sound and lighting game for this one.

Hey y’all! I’ve been doing a personal challenge of writing/recording/posting a “lick of the day” every day to insta/youtube. I’ve never been a lick player, but it’s been a fun way to actually compose a line/phrase where I can make edits to it, rather than improv where an idea can get lost to the moment. I thought this one was kinda cool.