In this week's guitar lesson, I'll show you how to create melodic sounding solos by targeting chord tones when improvising. You'll be "playing the chord changes" which means changing scales to match each chord change. Most of the notes you'll be learning are pulled directly from chord shapes (not scales) which makes it easy to visualize where you can play on the neck. … [Read more...]
Improvising On The Guitar – How It’s Done
One topic I get lots of questions on is around improvising on the guitar. How does it work? Do you really just make it up on the spot? How do you know where to start? and the list goes on and on. I thought I’d take a few minutes and make an analogy that will hopefully help put things into perspective and help some of you connect the dots on the topic of improvising on the guitar (or any other instrument). Music is a language (no really!) I’m sure you’ve heard many of the phrases around the … [Read more...]