Lol! This is hilarious! Anytime you play any note, the source of those notes is a scale! No matter what you do with those notes is irrelevant, it's source is still a scale. What you mean to say is that you won't be playing linearily through a scale. Educate yourself.
Of course the notes are derived from the diatonic scale, and some patterns I play will be part of other scales such as the pentatonic scale. I was just trying show people that the way I play is 'I think E, so I play find E, I want to play D next so I find D instead' instead of using shapes or patterns to go from one note to the next. I assume you knew I meant that anyway, but I was stupid enough to leave myself open for anyone who wants to be pedantic to pick on me, by not being precise about the wording. For anyone curious about this comment, I previously titled the 'guitar solo improv, no scales' but now I will change it to 'guitar solo improv, no scale patterns'.
Great stuff! Thanks for the link to the Backing track too - right up my street. I love EJT but never heard this one 👍 I get what you're saying about your approach to this. This is pretty much how I operate too. Like you, I have a good understanding of a lot of scales, patterns, modes etc. But I try not to think about them too much when I'm improvising, just pick a start point and let your ear/imagination guide your choices. Something like that? 😂🤷♂
Hey, yes cannot go wrong with a bit of EJT! Yes, fundamentally I have memorised all the notes in each key across the guitar fretboard, as long as I stay within key little can go wrong. However I have a system so that I'm not just picking random notes within key, but actually trying to make a melody.
I know that a major interval will sound major, a minor will sound minor, (but I don't go from every note to note via intervals) I have an idea if I want to go high or low, I think I am building some sort of subconscious recollection of the tone of each note due to how long I've been playing, but I do not have perfect pitch. I use these to move away from and back to the tonal centre.
You are using scales and arpeggios. You will eventually reach a point where you don't think about the scale or the arpeggio while playing, your ears and muscle memory will just know where to go but you'll still be using scales and picking notes from chord shapes, otherwise you'll just sound out of tune and bad.
I am picking notes freely but this may overlap with what scales, or arpeggios would look like, because obviously there are a limited number of notes within key and however way you arrange them, they are likely to overlap and appear to fall into several different systems of choosing notes. But the foundation of my playing never started from any sort of scales or arpeggios - I learnt every note within all keys across the fretboard, and am still cementing this knowledge. After improvising for a long time I actually had to put in effort to start using scales, you may notice this in my other videos where you can see making a more conscious effort to incorporate the pentatonic/ blues scale. With that said, even though I am picking freely I do notice that my picking falls into unconscious patterns of behaviour that typify my style.
@@MissJennyGuitar Every note you played is within the D natural minor scale. You are already using your ears and playing the shapes. The only thing left is to understand what you're actually doing and why each note works the way it does. That's all music theory is.
There's a lot of theory that goes into my improvisations actually, I explain here if you are interested to know ruclips.net/video/PisSqeDyq8w/видео.html
I'll give you 5 years to improve yourself into a great musician. Until then I'm willing to put up with any BS (like this video) you might come up with. 5 years : the first of June 2029.
Lol! This is hilarious! Anytime you play any note, the source of those notes is a scale! No matter what you do with those notes is irrelevant, it's source is still a scale. What you mean to say is that you won't be playing linearily through a scale. Educate yourself.
Of course the notes are derived from the diatonic scale, and some patterns I play will be part of other scales such as the pentatonic scale. I was just trying show people that the way I play is 'I think E, so I play find E, I want to play D next so I find D instead' instead of using shapes or patterns to go from one note to the next. I assume you knew I meant that anyway, but I was stupid enough to leave myself open for anyone who wants to be pedantic to pick on me, by not being precise about the wording. For anyone curious about this comment, I previously titled the 'guitar solo improv, no scales' but now I will change it to 'guitar solo improv, no scale patterns'.
Ok.. Chad but you don't have to be a dick about it right?
@@BassCommunion such a chad
He's not being a dick. He's being right. No need to be offended because he corrected your inaccurate information.
@@mr.h5788 Dude it's not what you say but how you say something
Great stuff! Thanks for the link to the Backing track too - right up my street. I love EJT but never heard this one 👍
I get what you're saying about your approach to this. This is pretty much how I operate too.
Like you, I have a good understanding of a lot of scales, patterns, modes etc.
But I try not to think about them too much when I'm improvising, just pick a start point and let your ear/imagination guide your choices.
Something like that? 😂🤷♂
Hey, yes cannot go wrong with a bit of EJT! Yes, fundamentally I have memorised all the notes in each key across the guitar fretboard, as long as I stay within key little can go wrong. However I have a system so that I'm not just picking random notes within key, but actually trying to make a melody.
Really nice. Shoutout for the Ibanez Gio line.
Thanks for posting. What exercises did you use to start learning this approach?
Very beautiful. Are going off notes based on the sound you want? I don't think anyone can just pick random notes with knowing what sound you want.
I know that a major interval will sound major, a minor will sound minor, (but I don't go from every note to note via intervals) I have an idea if I want to go high or low, I think I am building some sort of subconscious recollection of the tone of each note due to how long I've been playing, but I do not have perfect pitch. I use these to move away from and back to the tonal centre.
❤ Fantastic 😊
This is begging to have a distorted tone.
Not bad🎉
If you get a Ibanez 5Watt combo amp with built in tube screamer you’ll have exactly what you describe.
Thank you for being helpful!
Try to put some vibrato to some notes. Learning a bit by bit making playing more alive, its little things that light the music on fire.
You are using scales and arpeggios. You will eventually reach a point where you don't think about the scale or the arpeggio while playing, your ears and muscle memory will just know where to go but you'll still be using scales and picking notes from chord shapes, otherwise you'll just sound out of tune and bad.
I am picking notes freely but this may overlap with what scales, or arpeggios would look like, because obviously there are a limited number of notes within key and however way you arrange them, they are likely to overlap and appear to fall into several different systems of choosing notes. But the foundation of my playing never started from any sort of scales or arpeggios - I learnt every note within all keys across the fretboard, and am still cementing this knowledge. After improvising for a long time I actually had to put in effort to start using scales, you may notice this in my other videos where you can see making a more conscious effort to incorporate the pentatonic/ blues scale. With that said, even though I am picking freely I do notice that my picking falls into unconscious patterns of behaviour that typify my style.
@@MissJennyGuitar Every note you played is within the D natural minor scale. You are already using your ears and playing the shapes. The only thing left is to understand what you're actually doing and why each note works the way it does. That's all music theory is.
There's a lot of theory that goes into my improvisations actually, I explain here if you are interested to know ruclips.net/video/PisSqeDyq8w/видео.html
keep going - nice try.
just speak less and play more
I'll give you 5 years to improve yourself into a great musician.
Until then I'm willing to put up with any BS (like this video) you might come up with.
5 years : the first of June 2029.