How to Practice Improvisation on Guitar - Guitar Soloing School Lesson #5

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How can you practice improvisation on guitar? So far in this Guitar Soloing School series we've covered crucial improvisation concepts like rhythm, repetition, call and response and space, and in this lesson I'll show you 3 guitar fretboard exercises to use for practicing improvisation. These guitar exercises focus on mastering the scales or arpeggios we use when we improvise guitar solos or licks and will help you develop the ability to play freely and creatively instead of trying to keep your place on the guitar neck the whole time! Instead of just playing scales up and down the fretboard when you jam, these exercises will help you get deeper into what can be done with the scales you know. You'll develop your creativity, your knowledge of the fretboard, your soloing vocabulary and your ear (exercise 3 is a killer eartraining exercise!). So prepare to start learning your guitar fretboard better than ever before! This is the fourth lesson in my Guitar Soloing School series, more lessons coming soon ...subscribe so you don’t miss them :-)

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✨ TABLE OF CONTENTS ✨

0:00 - These fretboard exercises will help you to learn your fretboard better and play more freely when you improvise. In this first segment of the lesson we'll discuss WHY this is important and how NOT knowing your fretboard can really be a problem.

1:50 - These exercises can be used for ANY GUITAR SCALE not just the ones I'm using. Important to grasp this! These are just approaches and practice methods, take them and apply them to YOUR playing and situation.

3:01 - Exercise 1: 'Pocket Soloing'. This is all about finding a 'pocket' within your scale patterns and thoroughly exploring it. By restricting yourself to this pocket alone, you discover all sorts of new things you can do. If you do this with enough 'pockets' you will end up knowing your scales to a whole new level. Powerful exercise, try it!

7:20 - Exercise 2: Single String Soloing. This exercise is all practicing improvisation along a single string. This forces us out of our comfort zone and makes us discover new ideas we never thought to play before. It's also an amazing way to learn the fretboard. If you don't know your scales up the neck yet, don't worry. Just remember this exercise and come back to it in the future when you do!

12:00 - Exercise 3: Same Starting Note. Practice improvising a phrase beginning on the same note over and over. You'll start to build all sorts of new ideas beginning on this note, and the exercise stops you from always falling back on what you already do all the time. You'll break new ground and learn a lot. It's also an amazing eartaining exercise, teaching you the sound of each note and what it sounds like to begin a phrase on each note in the scale.

16:55 - Remember to persevere with these exercises and use them over time, this is the only way you'll see any real change in your playing. Just doing them once won't make a difference! Getting used to going outside our comfort zone is crucial if we want to become better at improvisation and these exercises will definitely help big time.
Good luck!

Guitar Soloing school lesson 1: nail rhythm and timing for solos that groove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O3hDmRb1iU

Guitar Soloing school lesson 2: using repetition for solos that make sense. Avoid 'rambling'solos! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytwecJgwH04

Guitar Soloing school lesson 3: The magical power of SPACE! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUnu_TNPv_A

Guitar Soloing school lesson 4: Call and response phrasing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skHz_euslQI

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