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The instructor advocates for fragmenting ideas into manageable pieces—"arpeggio fragments"—and combining them to create musical lines. This modular approach enables improvisers to recognize intervals and note functions within chords, leading to more confident and melodic solos.
He encourages students to take familiar solos (like parts of Stairway to Heaven), analyze the licks, and transpose them into different keys to develop a flexible vocabulary. Recognizing that learning to play this way is akin to learning a language helps frame practice as meaningful and context-driven.