It is unfortuante that too many soloists start at one volume level and stay at the level throughout their solos
It is much more effective and extremely easy to vary the dynamics, letting an increase or decrease in dynamics signal a different emotional level in your improvisation.
All you have to do is play a little softer or a little louder and your solos will be a lot more interesting.
Crescendos
–most common dynamic effect is increasing the volume over the course of a solo and by the time you reac the climax, your volume level is up to forte. Then as you release tnesion at the very end, you descrescendo just a notch.
Sudden volume change
–it is extremely effective when you introduce a sudden change of volume.
You are playing a very emotional or exciting phrase in the middle of your solo, at a fairly loud volume.
If you start the next phrase at a much lower volume level, you get the listener’s attention.
The sudden dynamic change signals that somethign imp is up and creates a focus on the new phrase.
Equally effective is a sudden (not a gradual) increase in volume.
Play one phrase soft and then hit the first note of the next phrase noticeably louder wakes up everybody in listening distnace and serves to draw attention to the new phraase.
Accents
–the most sudden volume change of allcomes when you accent a note.
there is no reason that all the notes of a phrase have to be played t the same volume.
Use accents to punctuate specific notes or entire shorter pharses.
You don’t deliver a speec in monotone, so vary the volume of your playing as you would vary your volume of yoru voice in a conversation.
Silence
–it gets a little boring when a speaker drones on and on without even stopping to take a breath.
Good speakers know that the use of silence helps to draw attention to what thy are tring to say, helps them pace their speech.
It’s the same thing musically, injecting silence into a solo makes hte phrases on either side of the silence sound more important.
In music, silence is called a rest.