How do you improvise in the first place?
I dont know any scale (find em pointless), but how do you use them. In lot of lessons i find notes are picked out of the given scale box (which makes it confusing w heater to stick to a scale box or not).
So how do you improvise and come up with solos?
Also i need a crash course in my scale knowledge and where to start, can anyone help me by linking lessons?
Scales are not pointless. Try to improvise over a backing track without knowing where the root note is, not knowing any notes that fit to the backing or eachother, nothing hangs toghether. Just hitting random notes will sound horrible. All your favorite guitarists use scales, I'm sure of that. Infact, I dont know about any electric guitar players that dont use scales.
As usual: Kris' One-on-one lessons on the pentatonic scale will help you start.
Kris' pentatonic lessons was where everything started with me actually. I practiced all boxes untill I knew them, but dont practice too long, just long enough to know how the scale is. Before Gabriel and the other instructors came with their blues lessons, GMC only had one blues lesson. Kris' Hot blues licks lesson. I learned most of that lesson, not all of it becuase some licks were too hard. I used Kris' licks to improvise and I made variations of the licks I learned from him. After a little while I managed to create my own licks.
Also, listen to other guitarists, steal licks and play around with them, make your own variations. Also make your own licks and patterns from scratch.
Now, ~10months later, I personally think I'm very good at improvising. I dont play perfect, but I manage to create solos and even new licks as I play, and with very good phrasing. Whenever I play to a new backing track I find new licks and new ways to improvise.
Jamming/improvising is just as important as lessons and excerises. Actually, to me improvising is ALOT more important than excerises, but then again, I play blues, not shred. Improvise EVERY day, or else you wont be able to create your own stuff.
Btw, I use minor pentatonic for all this, but also Dorian, wich is pretty much the same as minor pentatonic, just two more notes. I also use licks that are partly outside these scales, it doesnt matter if you jump out of the scale with a note or two, aslong as it sounds good. Look at the scale as a foundation or guideline. You can jump outside, but be sure to jump in again.
Oh and I also got to add that Walliman got plenty of excellent lessons on scales.