Improvising with motives e-book

Improvising with motives is a book about using motives and motivic development as the basis for practicing improvisation and soloing on the guitar.

Motives are short musical ideas that can be developed into longer musical phrases.

The great thing about using motives and motivic development is that you can present an idea to the listener and then take it to new places without losing the connection to that original idea. This will make it more interesting to listen to since the listener will start guessing what will happen next to the motive.

This book explains how to use motivic development techniques as a part of your improvised guitar solos and has chapters on:

• Creative repetition
• Deleting notes
• Changing notes
• Sequencing (moving motives through the scale)
• Rhythmic variation
• Retrograde
• Inversion
• Approach note patterns.

The book also has a chapter on analysis and one on how to practice with motives.

This book is intended for both beginning improvisers who struggle to start improvising solos and advanced players who want to find ways to make their solos sound more cohesive and interesting. Most chapters have both simpler and more advanced examples.

120+ examples show the techniques used in blues, jazz, pop, funk, soul and rock contexts with various motives.

A collection of audio files of each example is also included.

This is an e-book in the form of a PDF file.

Patrick Wiborg Dahle