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Originally Posted by marinoFret
Two months ago I discovered "Improvising" .
When I first tried to improvise something with minor pentatonic scale, it sounded dull  and stupid. As the time was passing, I was getting better and better  ......
Here's my problem:
I like improvising so much that everything I play is improvised, I improvise all the time! I stopped focusing on learning songs.
Is this wrong?! 
My father complains me that I don't learn songs..... but I like the improvising better. My mother really likes my songs (I mean what I improvise while I'm playing in the living room)...
Should I focus on making my own songs, or on learning songs?
Thanks for help! |
Marinofret--
There's nothing wrong with choosing to only improvise. However you decide, you will begin to make a mark on your styles.
You're going to get a whole range of opinions with this. But let me just briefly tell you my story:
I began learning and am very good today at learning songs. I have been in the position of needing to learn songs overnight.
But the key is that even though I have been heavily into learning songs, it takes improvisation to pull it off most of the time because often there's just not enough time or effort wanted to play the song 'exact'. So I learn the basics of the song, the main riffs, whatever else is important to the song, and then go from there. People love it.
But here's the downside to only learning songs all the time: my improvisational skills have suffered.
So the best answer is to do both. Just like anything else in life, balance is really the key.
On the other side of the coin are players like Kirk, who are masters at improv. He also can know basically what to play quickly because he enhances his improv skills by his knowledge of how the basic song is constructed (sorry Kirk. I could be totally wrong. Please correct me). So either way works.
Steve