Intervallic Soloing Using 4ths

Sid Jacobs shares his approach to intervallic soloing using 4ths — a way to break out of predictable scalar, bebop, and arpeggio-based lines and express beautiful modal sounds. Sid demonstrates how to organize the major scale and melodic minor in fourths, plays each line fluidly with specific left- and right-hand fingerings, and then puts the vocabulary to work over a standard.

What's covered

• Stacking diatonic 4ths through all seven modes of the major scale (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian) — treating modes as moods, not formulas
• Melodic minor in 4ths and its modes, including Lydian dominant, Locrian natural 2, and the altered (super Locrian) sound
• Using melodic minor sounds on dominant and altered chords, including the "Hendrix chord" voiced in fourths
• Inversions, octave displacement, and different ways to break the patterns up across the neck
• Fingering details and Sid's "let go as you go" technique for clean, fluid execution
• Practicing the lines in different keys, with groove, and building comping into your phrases
• Applying it all to a tune — It Could Happen to You — plus melody/counter-melody thinking, CESH, deceptive cadences, and triad pairs

This is a great class for any guitarist who wants to get away from standard scalar or bebop soloing. Includes 2 pages of PDF materials in standard notation. Full video is 117 minutes.