1. Melodic embellishment lets you base your solo on the original melody while adding ornamentation that builds on that melody
2. Simplest type: pitch bends, trills and turns.
3. Anticipate a main tone in the melody by playing grace notes before the note, or by leading to thenote with appraoch notes
4. 2 notes ina melody can be connected with passing notes.
5. can create entirely new melodies by extracting and repeating short motifs or riffs from the original melody.
Tags: embellish melody