Vocabulary pack · past the box
24 original licks built from the techniques most players never reach — oblique bends, enclosures, superimposed pentatonics, diminished-over-V, behind-the-nut, sliding 6ths. All in A (blues / A7–D7–E7) so they're transposable. Tap to hear the articulation; the bends actually glide.
Bends beyond "bend up a tone." Obliques, pre-bends, unison and behind-the-nut — where intonation separates players.
Approaching chord tones from both sides — the jazz-blues move that makes lines sound deliberate instead of scalar.
The Robben Ford / Larry Carlton secret: play a different pentatonic than the key to spell the chord's colour tones. This is the big one.
The dominant chord wants tension. Half-whole diminished and altered tones give you the outside sound that resolves perfectly home.
Two notes at once — the horn-section, Curtis-Mayfield, Robben-Ford comping-into-soloing vocabulary.
The last two bars — where the whole solo gets its punctuation. Chromatic, triplet, and ending moves.