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Originally Posted by marinoFret
When I improvise, I try not to just noodle around. 
I try to add chords (power chords, major or minor, sometimes only intervals: root + 3rd, root + b3rd, ...) in my improvisation, especially when I don't have a backing track. |
Me too.
Improvising is what I love, and I know that I'm terrible at plodding through set lessons, so I try to work with what my natural style and strengths seem to be. So - like you - I try to add a bit of underlying method to my 'noodling'. So I might jot down a bunch of chords in a certain key and slowly add extras, and variations and so on. And sometimes I just let the fingers choose - make a few 'wrong' decisions, and so on. See what comes out of it.
I still have a sheet of paper that an experienced guitar player gave me, with some reasonably basic chords on, and I still often use it as a starting point to warm up with.
It just says:
- A - D - E7 - (Key of A)
D - G - A7 - (Key of D)
G - C - D7 - (Key of G)
C - F - G7 - (Key of C)
E - A - B7 - (Key of E)
Am - Dm - E7 - (Key of Am)
Em - Am - B7 - (Key of Em)
Of course, there are zillions of other chord possibilities in each key (and lots more keys) but I've had many happy hours just noodling through that list. Changing the order, the strumming and tempo, adding and changing chords, etc. And along the way you 'discover' quite a few familiar songs too.
Cheers,
Chris
PS Your English is excellent. I wish I had a half way decent second language....