Don't Understand How People Just "improv" |
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Don't Understand How People Just "improv" |
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Jan 4 2008, 03:03 PM |
Patterns are really nice way of thinking while jamming or improvising.
But you shall also think of notes imho, specially when you have more chords in progression, just to avoid laying down on "wrong" notes. -------------------- Youtube
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Jan 4 2008, 03:12 PM |
I believe that improvisation is a very complex mental process. It all starts with the melody inside your head. And it finishes off with the same melody on your guitar. There are a whole array of skills needed to do an impro but the most important one is to know your freatboard and have developed you ear to that extent that you can translate the notes from your head to the ones on the fretboard. This goes something like this:
Note in your head -------- note on the fretboard so it is obvious that you need to know where are the notes on the fretboard that you hear in your head. For example think of just two notes and try to play them on the neck. repeat it a number of times and you'll see that you can play the notes with more ease. The other thing is that during your playing and learning process you acquire some licks and skill needed to play certain melodies. So you already have some premade melodies in your head learned form other musicians and you r own playing. Combine that together and melodies of your own and make you own impros easier and easier as playing becomes second nature. And remember all of this comes after a lifetime of hard work and practice. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jan 9 2008, 12:19 AM |
I just had this fantastic image of you singing, playing and danceing around the room alltogether Kosei ! Looks interesting indeed -------------------- Youtube
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Jan 15 2008, 02:23 PM |
Yea so I've been looking around the collaborations lately I just want to know? How do yall come up with this stuff? I know it is a pretty broad question but I just don't get it. I can recite theory from a textbook 24 hours a day, I knowledge ridiculous amounts but don't know how to put it to use? This is a little late in coming Shellshock, I planned to have it posted a week (ish) ago, its just a rough guide, but hopefully will help with your original questions too check it out HERE -------------------- |
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Jan 19 2008, 10:52 AM |
Hi shellshock,
Ive got EXACTLY the same problem. 1- How to put scales to use? 2- How to put licks into scales? Butyoure better off than me because you know your chord progressions and stuff and how to use them, while i just consider them more for a acoustic chordy song. I know im being close minded, but i think im doing fine till now. Here are some real troubleing questions because ive got the scales bit down but now i need to know how to put licks into them. Firstly when a the backing track is set to a key (say B ), do i have to use a certain scale in the key of B or just any scale or mode in the key of B? Secondly, Can licks be used in any key or any scale or are they limited to certain scales or keys? (For example if you look at the lick of the day, you usually notice that Kris specifies what key and scale you can use the lick. Why cant we just put in the lick into any key or even any scale)? How do you seperate licks from a ton of notes? For example im now wroking on this lesson: http://guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/b...eno-rock-licks/ If you take a look at the tab of vid one you see loads of notes and tak to me doesnt seem like a single lick (more like many licks). How do i spot out a single lick i want to improvise with? My final problem is moving licks around. I dont exactly under stand you to move a lick up and down the fretboard because the intervals change. What i do i simply put the lick anywhere in the fretboard and try and figure out where the notes go. Is there any lesson on GMC to help me with my problem? How did you guys overcome these issues. This post has been edited by jammer91: Jan 19 2008, 11:32 AM -------------------- _____________________________________________________
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