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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:12 pm
i understand the whole theory behind chords and scales and progression crap, but i cant make anything tasteful out of it all. it sounds like meandering crap -_-. i get so pissed at it i cant stand playing/hearing myself.
how do you go about improvising?
thanks a lot for any advice.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:30 pm
just keep learing licks and such . Jam with people and listen to music , it takes time but just keep playing . Thats the key and screw around with licks is where you could put them . Over what chords and and rhtyms and such . Plus dont over think too , that can kill ya lol . So keep it up , and if it bugs yea to learn licks then just see them more as melodies or whatnot . Just keep it up , oh another cool thins is to record your self solo or whatever . Its like hearing your voice you learn how you really sound like . And find any errors or odd things you do or things you feel like that missing in your playing . And make improvements in your playing .
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:57 am
I find if I'm starting to sound repetitive or non-creative, I go and learn a new tune. It's crazy, but the new tune dictates what I play for the next two weeks or so. The best kind of tunes are the ones that I've never tried before since there's a whole new palate of licks and techniques to work on that I may never have seen. I then start applying some of these (in a modified way of course) to my playing.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:01 am
One other thing to note (Forgot about this) is that you almost rarely ever improvise. There will be a time when you will be struck with some kind of divine intervention and you'll have something that's totally fresh, but most of the time when you jam, you just use stuff you've already played.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:05 pm
Question:
how the **** do you improvise?
Answer:
Make it up as you go along!
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:57 pm
Keep improvising! Sure some things might sound bad, but work around it. Listen carfully to the things you do. When you hear something good, work off of that.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:43 pm
melody ... work around the melody and chord tones .
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:52 am
you should spend some time listenin to different chord sequences, and work out what notes fit with each chord, so that eventually you'll be able something that sounds good with any chords. also its worth playing along backing tracks or songs, this helps your ear to become better at recognising what key the piece is in which will then lead you onto selecting the right notes.
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:35 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:40 am
learn the entire fret board
estring- e f fsharp g gsharp etc on all strings
then learn what scale you wanna use and what notes they compose of.
blues scale: a, a#, B, D, F, F#, G
do you need me to put something to help you out on the net?
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:36 am
Learn a solo, intro, fill or some crap like that. Take the notes and rearrange them, change the timing, and you have a whole new sound. Of course with experience you will learn what sounds good so you won't have to steal guitar parts from songs. Rock on. wink
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:06 pm
joe-dude667 Question:how the **** do you improvise? Answer:Make it up as you go along! that is the meaning behind the word "IMPROV"
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:16 pm
just practice , and relax about it .
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:12 pm
For me, all I can do is do some chords that I know. You have to know a little bit about which chords go together, though. I only know from playing other songs like the slow bits of Sweet Child Of Mine and chords I've made up that no doubt exist that I've never heard of
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:10 pm
Well, when I first started trying to play lead this is what I did. I knew two scales, the Aeolian mode and the hexatonic scale. So, I turned on the radio (classic rock because most of it was relatively simple and predictable chord structures) and I spent the first part of the song figuring out the key it was in, and the rest playing any combination of notes I could come up with that I thought sounded alright over the song.
I know a lot of folks are going to encourage you to learn other people's lick, but to me personally, that is not improvisation. Improvising is about your own personal creativity. Thus I would recommend not learning other people's licks until later. This way you end up sounding more original and developing a style of your own. Otherwise, you get stuck using someone else's handful of licks when you improvise and end up just being another guitarist that sounds like every other one. Be yourself! =)
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