It's always going to be a controversial topic, whether or not someone should practice lines, because ultimately nobody wants to be labeled as a “lick player” or “pattern player”. 

The reality is that all famous players have learned lines at some point in their careers and practice routines. If you look at any solo from any artist, you will always find licks and phrases or at least fragments of it. The deeper you dig, the more you will find.

But learning a few random phrases here and there won't do anything for you. You can learn a phrase from YouTube or somewhere else on the internet and it might make sense at that moment, but if you don't know how to “weave” the lick into your own playing, the new phrase will be useless.

Let me provide you with a recipe to weave lines and licks successfully into your own playing. A cookie cutter system that will help you develop the necessary playfulness to actually work with a lick in the future.

We will cover easy tools and also work on the “how to say something”, which will enable you to playfully cover up lines. How to make a newly learned lick sound not too obvious in your solo and “getting rid of your traces” is a topic that most resources out there ignore completely.

You will find books full of Jazz lines written out, but the “How to” on guitar is never really discussed much. Getting rid of your traces and making a newly learned phrase sound like it was all part of the improvisation is an important skill to develop from the beginning in order to really improve.

Go through a step by step method on how to scan, memorize and adapt lines into your playing.

Course Overview

PART IV Lines & Vocabulary

• Implement 70 lines and make them part of your vocabulary

• How to scan, memorize and adapt lines

• Connect lines and stretch phrases

• Weave lines into your play and getting rid of your traces

• Song applications, optional exercises and weekly plan

PART V Rhythmic Displacement

• Anticipating and starting phrases from different beats

• Moving lines and bebop scales around rhythmically

• Exercises to hear and feel a bigger rhythmical frame

• Downloadable content such as backing tracks, PDFs and other learning materials

• Song applications, optional exercises, motivation and mindset chapters and much more

• Gain access to a supervised private Facebook group where students can share their progress.

*NOTE: This is PART IV and PART V of the full “Jazz Guitar Transformation Online Course”. The topics covered in each part can be treated individually, but are better practiced in order. As I do not know your current level, I would highly recommend starting from the beginning or check out the entire course to experience the full effect of this curriculum.