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TOTM - Alone Together - Soloing Techniques

I think the new TOTM is a great selection. Alone Together is a very hip tune to play on. Thought I would post this from a past concert to perhaps generate some ideas and approaches to work on. This clip includes a few things like playing lines using four mallets, lines in octaves using four mallets, deadstrokes, right hand octaves with left hand four to the bar comping. As far as notes go, I'm using at times some pentatonics, motivic development, various chord scales, reharmonization. Sometimes if there's a II-7 V7, I'll just think V7. There is some over the bar line phrasing in the solo.