Bebop Lick
Never be caught guessing during a solo break again! This handy and great sounding lick will get your solos off to a great start. Everyone has been there: the horns are finishing up the head. You agreed to take the first solo. Now what? How are you going to fill that looming break? This lick sounds great.

Lesson Objectives
To learn the lick on the keyboard and in musical notation; what an upper structure is; how to break it into pieces and transpose it through all 12 keys; how to practice it and use it in tunes.

Lesson Stats
When added: 4/6/07; Duration: 11 minutes; Tunes used in lesson: Joy Spring; There is no Greater Love

Prerequisites
Moderate keyboard proficiency. Ability to read notation. These lessons are good prerequisites: Four Components of Melodic Construction, How to Learn Licks, The Major ii-V-I Progression.

Quizzes
Quiz 1: practice identifying melodic patterns
Quiz 2: practice transposing the Bebop lick

Practice Sessions & Playalongs
Practice Session 1: Learn the lick in F, Bb, Eb and Ab.
Practice Session 2: Learn the lick in Db, Gb, B and E
Practice Session 3: Learn the lick in A, D, G and C.
Practice Session 4: Learn the lick in 12 keys through the cycle of 4ths and randomly.
Practice Session 5: Use the lick in the tune All of Me.
Includes play-alongs for all practice sessions in MIDI, Band-in-a-Box™ and GarageBand formats.

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