How to Use Enclosure to Create Great Bebop Lines

I love enclosures on arpeggios too

You are brilliant I never understand this hearing a lot of people talk about it. But you explain it so well but I am learning the sax

The classically trained musician in me is twitching at the double non harmonic tones with that D-D#-E line. I totally get the jazz theory and understand why this works, but it's so hard to talk myself into that being okay after all of those music theory classes where that was a big no no. Anyway, great video, and this is very useful for better sounding solos for sure. I look forward to applying this to my own soloing!

I feel like I’ve watched ALL the enclosure videos for guitar and this is THE best. Thanks!

Everyone explains this (enclosures) using a static harmony or the C major scale. Finally, someone explains how to work on this over an actual chord progression. What I'd next like to know is, how could I practice this over the Coltrane tune Moments Notice?

Yeah what was overlooked during the Abersold epoch was the increased chromatic density that bop enclosures can add as well as the insane level of adherence to the progression they insure. Now on the bad side is enclosures guarantee a kind of predictability if over used and they encourage the use of licks. But use of enclosures as well as all the chromatically altered scales now ya talking. But Tabula Rassa not licks

Very interesting. I will use it for a metal solo, it works perfectly well!

Danke!

Thanks 🙏

Excellent

I like what you did with 2 5 1 above and below you have a melody.. I find you learn more using them in a tune- Solar, Dolphin Dance.. Give us examples of chromatic, pevit and enclosure in tunes. It STAYS with you. The idea of using the scale is good because you are learning melodic lines. Barry Harris?

The video should be called “what is an enclosure “ not how to use enclosures 😊

simple & clear!

Great lesson!

I Like the use of decptive harmony in phrasing...suggesting the possibilty of a certain change...

Hi, i will start practicing enclosures on ii v i’s

U played a cmaj9 tho 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

A Good idea Is Charlie Banacos chromatic approach:12 exercises for all the 4 target notes for all the kind of Chords...Just One Page to study for One year(if you are lucky)....every modern jazz-fusion players play thinking about chord....Gambale,Scott Henderson,Stern,Scofield but also Bill Evans and Wes!the most important thing that lots of players with a rock background and jazz beginners risk to don't understand Is to play not "in position"!

The Dmin7 you write in F# but it sounds like your playing a g ?

What if I make enclosures to the 5th, but resolving to the 3rd or 7th instead?

Target the 3rd with 3 notes above then 2 notes below (chromatically). You got super mario bros.

I'm a predominantly bluesy rock player breaking into different types of jazz through the likes of jump blues and rockabilly. Currently working on giving my lead lines jazzier flourishes and this definitely is something to have under my fingers.

Excellent video.
Thanks

Thanks You have just educate me more into this musical language I am finding out, learning music is so much hard to learn, compare to my trade. but I ave spend so so much on saxophone I am not giving up

Or you could just say 1/2 step below whole step above , much easier way to look at it imo

Greeting from Lemmings, Greenland

Great lessons I did no what enclosures were all tho I’ve been playing them

Thaks for this video! Althought I dont know how to read music ive been playing by ear since i learned piano and I have been learning a lot of jazz theory so i recognize what u playin instantly and i can apply it right away into my playing! Greetings from Guatemala

Easy way to remember: Enclosure = abcd ...
Enclosure: 1 note above (a) and 1 note below (b), either chromatically (c) or diatonically (d).
Target Note: A note in the chord being (or about to be) played.

Cool man

Man I feel like Im working with my own private guru! Great lessons, thanks!!

The cool thing about the way you describe it is that it’s easy to see why the V chord us often an altered dominant. Your D# is the #5 of the G7. When you approach from below to the maj 7 of C with an A#, it’s the #9 of the G7. Thank you for relating melodic enclosures to the chords in this way. 👍🏻👍🏻

Tabs please?

Nice clear concise exercise. I have a blues pentatonic background so this helps my efforts to begin sounding more jazzy.

your guitar has gorgeous inlays

So handsome :)

Nice lesson, I might be wrong, bit I think you are playing CMaj9 chords instead o Cmaj7

always the same exempels in C maj . what about whit Db maj, etc, etc

So you can start from below, THEN go above, and then hit your target note? I've only heard it explained above and below, not below and above. Thank you for being the first person I've heard to explain that.

Also, would it be practical to use enclosures while practicing a scale? Or is it more for arpeggios?

Barry Harris!!

great lesson, wish you could also tab it out, not all can read notes 😂

Thanks so much I understand and can start practicing this now

Great video!

Why do chromatic notes work over the chords (i.e. playing A# over Dm7)? What's the theory behind this?

Great lesson. This is only my second video but your teaching style is top notch.

Great explanation on Enclosure it's so well detailed, it's mind expanding 🎼🎶🎶🎶🎼.

Great stuff!