Soloing over the changes to " Take the A Train" 

Geeze, this video sucessfully hypnotized me 3 times.

Man, what a great lesson. I think the "don't play C" stuff can be misleading for beginners watching this video, I think it's necessary to be able to go full chord tones and make that sound good before trying to substitute everything. But this was the advanced group obviously.

"Anything you can do harmonically, you can do melodically." Absolute genious!!! What a great way to put it in words.

Wow, the first minute or so was very enlightening. Don't play Cmaj7 over Cmaj7. Mind blown! I guess I have been boring for a while now, I have never thought to imply dominance over a tonic chord. I have been doing altered sounds over 2 5 1s for a while, but over a static tonic chord, brilliant Rich! Ps. The Joe Pass story was amazing, I can hear his voice now. Thanks, Brian Kaminskas

Thank you so much Rich for a great lesson - would love to see more of these improvisation masterclasses!

Good job, keeping your sanity Rich, with all the noodling in the background.

Wow, I learned lots of very cool stuff from just this one lesson. Thanks so much, Rich!

Thank you for sharing sir

Cool very cool, this is great information without he jazz cat attitude. Thank You.

Thank you for sharing hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8

As a beginner who wandered into this lesson I feel like the out of place John Travolta meme, from pulp fiction, right now.

Great lesson. Still trying to wrap my head around how Ab melodic minor works over C major. My brain hurts

im a horn player but everything is applicable! great teaching

Below is another cool lick I came up with to play over D 7 - 5 in soloing. Notice the descending augmented arpeggio and flat fifth intervals shifted up every 2 frets at the end, derived from whole tone: --13-14-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------15-14-12-13----------------------------------------------- --------------------------13-----------------13-------15------17---- ------------------------------14--------12-------14-------16-------- -----------------------------------15---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some great ideas in this video, thanks Rich, but I need more ideas of "outside" lines you can play in C and the 7 flat 5 chord!!

So over the C chord you can play C harmonic minor or C melodic minor and then resolve back to C major? Earlier you said Ab melodic minor which is G altered. Would all these ideas work?

interessant

Still have that L-4 Rich?

Wow, great Joe Pass story. 8:14

racket is insufferable