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→Guidelines for Good Phrasing
* Each phrase or consecutive group of phrases should create a complete musical thought (create and relieve tension).
* Each phrase should use altered sustained notes, accents, rests, or otherwise alter rhythmic/pitch patterns between phrases to create contrast. You could repeat the entire phrase exactly but altering just one note may be enough.
* Sometimes phrases or series of phrases can be repeated 100% exactly multiple times - this in itself is a method to create tension that will eventually need to be relieved by a contrasting phrase.
* Each phrase should be an independent musical expression, although it may be weak or unresolved by itself.
* Phrases should naturally connect into each other, even when they belong to separate ideas.
* Each phrase must be mindful of the harmonic context it occurs over, such as targetting targeting accented notes from the harmony, or seeking to extend the harmony with "outside" notes.
* Try to make each phrase distinct from the others in the same solo.
* Try to make phrases different numbers of notes and durations of time.
* Question/Answer phrasing is simple and works well, but avoid multiple consecutive sequences of such, unless purposefully doing so to build tension. Otherwise, it can begin to sound mechanistic and simple, or forced.
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