Discovering New Lead Shapes, how do you do it? Options

[FrankW]

Muris, how do you discover new territory note-wise when you practice? Do you practice with a recorded backing track of, say, an unusual chord progression? I was thinking that, for instance, to make myself play something I'm not used to, I would think that I need a recording of unusual, at least for me, tracks to force me to improvise differently than what I would normally fall back on patterns-wise. I was thinking in terms of trying to come up with something exotic in the jazz/rock fusion idiom. Also, and you need to check this guy out if you haven't already, I watched Marco Sfogli playing his song Andromeda on Youtube...notice how his backing track is rock all the way, but a real cool progression. He's playing the same kind of exotic stuff you do. How do you guys discover the exotic stuff? Do you spell out the chords and , for instance, arpeggiate them? Thanks ahead of time, my friend.

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This post has been edited by FrankW: May 20 2008, 12:31 AM