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Our example is based on the chord progression to "All the Things you are" which starts and ends in the key of Ab. Play an Ab scale up and down a few times. Same range on your instrument.
If the tune were in Ab you could play that scale up and down all day long and it would fit.
Of course this tune modulates through a few keys and we'll have to adapt the scale. Play a scale using half notes, where for every next note you take into account the key. Imagine this as playing the notes of Ab. When you encounter a chord symbol you need to evaluate if the next note needs to be altered.
For example currently you play the note F, going down. So in Ab your next note would be Eb. If the next chord is Ab, Db, Bbm, Eb7, Cm the note Eb works. But if the next chord is C, G, Am7 you need to change the Eb to an E natural.
This following example shows this on the chorus of "All the Things..."
It gets more interesting with 8th notes:
Do this with a few standards. Use scale patterns (such as 1,2,3; 2,3,4; 3,4,5; etc).
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