Little Solos

I was driving with my son (Ray, age 13) the other day and he was describing a new song that he really liked, stating it had killer little solos throughout the song. I assumed he meant fills. We listened to the track and sure enough the soloist was playing playing all the vocal fills, just like you've been learning in Accompaniment Study 4. This was a cool example of what I stated in the lesson that new players tend to play their accompaniment softly (which is correct to do so), but forget to bring their volume up for each of the fills... playing timidly. It was cool that the reason why Ray liked the song so much were those full-volume fills, or "little solos" as Ray put it. Thanks for that insight Ray!