G'day all. Cyrus from Sydney. Self-confessed bedroom guitar player. Got a Maton m225, nice as anything. Plus electric Charvel Fusion custom (humbucker plus 2 mini-humbuckers, 24 frets, pointy headstock!).
I "know" chords, scales and some progressions. I know some songs and solos. I can play stairway to heaven, Smooth, Hotel California, Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone, Under the Bridge, Tesla - Signs, different things.
I found this forum and something really "struck a chord" with me (sorry about the pun).
KIRK SAID: Most players approach improvisation through scales and modes. I dabbled with them myself, many years ago, and never made them sound like anything but scales.
That is totally me. Plus, I don't know how to think with the scales and notes to really improvise and make it sound anything other than scales. It's sort of like if you learn something well enough, you can THINK with it, and so say the right thing at the right time.
People who can smooth talk anybody or are good on the
radio or TV, stand up comics, etc. It's a bit like that. People who learned debate in school for example. They seem to know their stuff well enough to think outside the practice session of scales and chords.
So I can practice and I can learn songs. But I need help "putting it all together" so I can think with it. So I know why the artists wrote what they wrote and what makes it sound good, so I can improvise, create, etc...
How about it?
I checked many threads, but it still didn't answer it for me... (thanks for all feedback on this...)