Hello, really nice work.
If you want to switch octave just use the signs "-" and "+".

All the best
BeBop

Hello,
glad to know that you want to start to play jazz.
I don't think to can tell you some secrets, and i don't think to be already a master of jazz music. I think it's a life target to play jazz at an advanced level but for sure it's a really "nice journey", pay your dues to learn this new language and always enjoy the "travel".
I said language cause for me jazz it's really a language.
So, to learn a new language ( not only a musical one ), you need to take care of many things: words, verbs, phrase and inflections. If we want to compare that terms with the jazz musical terms, then that could be ( not in exact order ): notes, chords, scale, tension, resolution, musical phrase, rhythm, timing, blues inflections...and so on....
I suppose you already play some other style ( true? but, wich instrument you play? ), so probabilly you already have some theory knowledge, maybe already a good one ( scale, chords, arpeggio, modes, ecc..).
In my humble opinion, one of the most important aspect of jazz music ( not only in jazz actually, cause i think it's true for every style of music ) is: RHYTHM. There is nothing worse than to play with wrong rhythm, or with rhythmic inconsistence and bad timing. You can play a wrong note ( but really exist a wrong note? ) but if the timing is good you can make it works the same. Try to play the right notes of a common melody but with wrong time, that would be really worse and unmusical.
So, i am agree with the other hints you have already received from the other messages, but, if i could throw my "two cent" suggestion i would say:
- Start to learn a 12 bar blues ( choose a simple one from the realbook, maybe Blue Monk? ).
- Work learning the chords and playing the tune with the metronome on "two and four" ( hope you know what that means). Maybe you can record yourself to have a playback, or play together with a Aebersold backing track, or use Band in a Box.
- When you have mastered the chords, learn the melody, always using a metronome ( or a backing track ).
- When you have mastered a blues form you can use the same kind of works ( first chords then melody ) with a standard tune( All of me, Autumn Leaves, All the things you are, ecc...).
Another really important thing to make is to hear what the masters have done on their records, transcribe their phrases.
I think that in this way you will become at least a little adopted to the kind of particular sound of a jazz tune.
Last but not least: play with others, play with people who knows better than you the new musical language.
I think that the faster way to learn a new language ( after knowing the basic ) is to speak with someone who is "mother language".

Hope this could be usefull.

All the best
BeBop

A Parker's lick:

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Little variation:

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This morning i was making my daily practice and i have "found" this lick. I can't say that it's "mine" cause i am sure it reminds some other lick( maybe classical style ?, probabilly due to the use of the E harmonic minor that reminds me something about Bach).
I think it works well also with B7b9 instead of B7#5 and surely you can exchange the E minor with E minMay7.
Anyway, i really enjoy it and so i am posting : )

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The lick came from an improvisation on Moment's Notice, the sequence of chord is the following:

|Am % % %|Gm % % %|F % Gm %|.

The lick starts on the first Gm and resolves on the 11 of the last Gm (C), if i am not wrong.
Maybe it works nicely also on Gm7b5, not tried yet.

This is a diminished lick on a Gm chord from the great John Coltrane

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This is a really famous pentatonic pattern.

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This one is a Jerry Bergonzi pattern as played by Mike Stern, on G7alt going to C

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Cool lick, i love Bill Evans.
This is another Rosenwinkel's triad lick ( from How Deep is the Ocean - Intuit ):

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The following are two licks from Mick Goodrick.

G Mixolidian

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Lydian b7 ( D Melodic Minor )

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If someone did a mistake probabilly was not Kurt : ) The first note must be an F but the first Gb is correct:

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By the way, the lick must use some pull off and hammer on too.
I will try to correct next time.