I've been using Kris's Phrasing lesson.... but I only took enough from it to make my life complicated, and force me to make it more organised...
So what I've done, last night:
• Watched the video, understood as much as I could...
• Wrote the scales I know down on some paper
• Drew the diagrams with them, then highlighted 1 note on each string in red
• Then highlighted one note on the 3rd 4th and 5th string in green
Then allowed myself to play only the red notes in bar one, the green notes in bar two, any notes in bar three, and the green notes again in bar four.
messed around with that for like an hour, getting pretty bored, but trying out things I've seen on this site over the last few days, and finding the same notes in different places on the fret board.
Then I whistled something... random, recording it into my Phone as i did - it actually sounded like a brian may riff, then set it to play back on repeat and tried to play it with my allocated notes...
Then when I was as close as I could be to that (bends, forbidden notes etc) reversed it, and allowed myself to play all the UNMARKED notes in my scale chart...
I'm a writer, mostly poetry and occasional short fiction, but I learnt long ago that limitation is your best tool for breaking out of the cliche... so I use it a lot when looking for something new...
Just give it a shot - it works great if you have someone else working along with the opposite notes (the ones you didn't mark) and you can compare riffs at the end.
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