I tend to look at what chords are being played that you want to solo over. I like to think of how my solo notes will 'lay' over the chords underneath.
What makes the perfect note choice is how it 'lays' on top of the progression. I have read here that Kirk goes in the chord approach and others say scales. Im a mixed bag of nuts and say both. TO me nothing is more important that the ryth. section and the groove they are laying down.
I try and pick my notes to compliment them. If you know your scales and chords then try and NOT think about the scales and all the theory and clutter that brings in, if your that bz thinking on theory its hard to listen to the band playing to see what needs to be there.
After this many years playing I tend to listen way more to the band than think about scales and such. I can just let it pour out from Heart to fingers and let it fly. Now Im not kirk and every preformance isn't perfect but every improv I do is from the heart and thats what I am after.
Now that being said get a recording or have someone play that chord prog for you and play each note of the scale against it one at a time. Each note creates a feel. Learn how the notes feel over the chord and load that into the brain for future use. Some note just sound sweet and some are very grating and feel tense, some feel strange and mysterious. All these feelings will be called for sometime in your career as a player. Then you can play the notes you wish at the right times to create the correct feel your after.
If you want to listen to some things try old King Crimson Cds for the tense use of notes. The guitar player there (robert fripp) is one of the best players out there for that note that can make you shiver or cause a tense moment in a tune. BB king tends to find the perfect SWEET note at any time he chooses. Frank Zappa could use every feeling in the book in every tune... what a master composer he was. Alot of people missed that when they listened to him. Get past the funny stuff of Zappa and listen to ' Shut up and play your guitar' series.
Hope this helps and wasn't just a long winded blathering.....
Your just upset because the voices won't talk to you !
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