#bebop licks

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How To Add Bebop Embellishments To Your Licks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZeZe1X5fsc&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcHgRn1uiZJfW9gmBBhK_RXc&index=9&t=0s 

 Bebop is famous for having solos of long 8th note lines and bebop licks are often a lot of notes. But an important part of what makes the lines really beautiful and breaks up the constant flow of 8th notes. In this video, I am going to go over some great lines from Bebop Masters like Dexter Gordon, Clifford Brown and Sonny Stitt. The way they use embellishments and construct lines is a great resource for learning and enhancing your own playing. Hope you like it!

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3 Charlie Parker II V I Licks How To Play Them On Guitar  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pxmkijH9c&index=10&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcF247KJAOrdpBzCY0YTWk6O&t=0sIf you want to learn how to play jazz then it is probably a good idea to check out how Jazz Giants play like some Charlie Parker II V I licks!A thing I never get tired of checking out is Charlie Parker and Bebop in general. I guess I still find it fascinating how the lines are so good and the material they are created with is really quite basic.In this video I am going to go over 3 II V I licks. I will focus on how Charlie Parker is great at having surprising turns and leaps in his lines so they don't sound like running up and down scales and he also still manages to get them to sound like real melodies instead of abstract interval exercises. He also often gets away with melodies that move across the barline.Hope you like it!

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5 Easy Ways To Sound Like Bebop On A C7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-mJjWukuA&t=0s&index=3&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEVgXuz4Y0B5kBeA6GiVHRs

The most important part of sounding like jazz, whether you play in that genre or in another, is probably to have some Bebop as a part of your playing.

This video is going to demonstrate 5 easy bebop licks on a C7 chord in a very position and quickly connect it to a scale and an arpeggio. I will go over how you can add some bebop flavour and chromatic phrases to your playing in this position.

Hope you like it!

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Amazing Bebop - How to play like Sonny Stitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54vcbKhsPzo&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEVgXuz4Y0B5kBeA6GiVHRs

If you want to learn Bebop then there are few people better to check out than Sonny Stitt. In this video I transcribed and analyzed two bebop licks from his solo on Au Privave from the Stitt plays Bird. These great licks are fantastic examples to learn from and contain some solid ideas you can add to your vocabulary. Often when you work on learning bebop all your solos are just up and down scales and arpeggios. Stitt has some beautiful ways to add variation both melodic and rhythm. Hope you like it!

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Bebop Jazz Guitar Licks – Classic Bebop Sound Decoded

Checking out bebop jazz guitar licks is a huge part of learning a style of music like Bebop. This also means out how to incorporate what makes them Bebop Guitar them into your playing. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeB7gttSwL4

In this video I will go over 3 good examples of Bebop Jazz Licks, and then I will analyze them and talk about how they are constructed and what the building blocks of this type of jazz lick is.

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3 Bebop Exercises and how to turn them into Jazz Guitar Licks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml2xvFdGCP8

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