Three Exercises to Try the Next Time You Practice.
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Welcome to today's video! Self-indulgent noodling is something most guitar players are guilty of doing from time to time, myself included.
It's becoming more and more common to see the younger generation of guitar players uploading clips of random noodling to instagram. This isn't a huge problem but as John Mayer mentioned in one of his instagram live streams, it's often more enjoyable for the listener to hear a guitarist play their licks with rhythmic and harmonic context.
Even though I'm guilty of doing the same, I 100% agree with his comments and so I wanted to throw this video out there with the hopes of encouraging more guitar players to practice improvising with context.
As mentioned in the video, there are three ways I would recommend doing this...
The first is simply to find a backing track online and start improvising over it.
The second is to find or create a similar drum loop to that backing track, and improvise over that alone. That means you're no longer hearing the chords or bass lines in the backing, so you now have to focus on hearing the chord progression in your head, and focus on highlighting the chord changes with your note choices.
The third and final step is to remove the drums! Play through the chord progression that your chosen backing track is based on once or twice, then start improvising!
When doing this, your focus should be on 1) highlighting the chord changes with your scales, triads and arpeggios, and 2) staying in time and maintaining the rhythmic feel of the track.
This is a challenging way of practicing but the end goal is to become confident at improvising solo by improving your ability to keep time as well as your ability to highlight chord changes.
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I see some people are commenting that noodling often leads to new ideas for both improvisation and songwriting, which is absolutely true.
I'm not saying you shouldn't ever do it, it's impossible to avoid it. It's fun!
My message is that picking up your guitar for 10 minutes and only playing licks you've played for years is NOT a worthy substitute for a structured and focused practice session. Sure, you could make it part of your warm-up before you get into your actual practice routine, but don't fool yourself into thinking that it alone can provide you with the same level of progress. It won't.
This video and its central concept is like the key to getting from where I *am* to where I am trying to go. So thank you again RC . . . it was a true lightbulb flash.
@@TomCPlus1 Glad to hear that Thomas!
Exactly! Noodling is fun and helps you incorporate your practiced achievements so they’re more unconscious, but you need prolonged intentional focus. In other words, both are essential!
The keywords are: Play intentionally. Thanks mate!
Ross Campbell I’d like to learn/practice the progression you were playing, what were the chords?
If this is noodling then I wish I could noodle like you.
Same here
right?
Me too :-)
Just get tablature to a solo and learn it well.
British joke but I’d say it’s Super noodling 😂
Fantastic video, Ross! This should be compulsory viewing for all guitarists!
Wow, thank you Tom! I've been a fan of your work for a long time.
I really enjoy your demos. Be well, indeed (as you say).
The practice over the jam track is sounding good brother! I still struggle over playing changes. The hardest part is to sound like you're not playing over changes and coming up with thematic and melodic lines.
Thanks pal. Yeah there's a long road ahead but I am enjoying the challenge so far.
You both are very humble, RJ. Both of you play over changes with lots of talent. That's why we appreciate you guys.
Just for the record, I'm learning stuff from both of you, so thanks for that.
@Gator McCluskey for me, playing over changes came naturally with backing track improv. Try to take a deep breath, clear your thoughts and try to feel the music. Start slow and focus on vibrato, timing and feel. But also knowing some music theory helps a lot
THE URANIUM CAFE
Oh, good for you! Big boy now...
Thank you for leaving the unpolished practice with the little errors and vocal frustrations. Far more inspiring to see players you admire go through struggles to get where they want to go than to see only the finish article where you can often feel : I'll never get that effortlessly good
You have the most useful, non pretentious guitar channel on RUclips. Thanks amigo
Ah thank you!
Nothing better than seeing a guitar teacher make mistakes to motivate a student. It isn’t automatic for anyone and it all takes practice
That is why I “noodle” with a looper...forces time, forces a song-progression. My solos sound more like arranging parts now...& i have written a bunch of new tunes...no more noodling!
Thanks so much for showing us all the massive difference between mindless noodling and playing music! I admire your courage in sharing your “weaknesses” with us.
We’re all on the journey to (hopefully)becoming better musicians...lessons like this are invaluable to the process. Great video mate!
Reminds me of the saying: “practice what you don’t know, not what you know”.
Pete Carney good thought!!
Steve Vai says just the opposite... who ya gonna listen to?
@@tonio19 problem is that he knows everything so doesn't really matter to him
Been noodling for ages and just now trying to progress. This is very helpful, thanks a million!
This lesson is absolutely critical, I see tons of people stuck in what I can best describe as noodle hell. They never ever learn how to write songs, hell I even suffered from this once. I finally broke away. I get what you're saying, noodling is cool but make sure that's not all you eventually know how to do.
Thank YOU for the tips, man.. keep rocking..
It's great video,thank you for exemples!
Glad I found this. thanks a lot. I feel for years i have plateau'd or stagnated, everything just based around blues scales and that is too safe for me now - its not challenging. i need to practice like this - thank you for this.
My guitar teacher just told me the exact same thing few weeks ago ! I began improving a lot since. These are the best advices you could get !
him noodling is me in 6 years after solid practicing
Nice. Keep practicing dude. You got this.
I definetly Agree
And in 6 years some less experienced young player will say the same about your noodling 🤘😎
In fairness, he's probably been playing much longer than 6 years haha
Man... Very good advices. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for portraying the realities of practising. It gives me so much more motivation to continue.
Great video! Very thought provoking - and spot on. Thanks Ross!
Much great advice in this video!!
Yet again very sound advice, thanks!
I can appreciate the point of the video and agree with it. I can also appreciate the amazing sound of the licks you played and the way the p90s absolutely sing through that gold top!!! Thank you.
I really love how you didn't edit the flubs.
Makes sense. Thank you.
Thank you!
Excellent lesson !! Thank You
One of the best videos I've seen about playing guitar! Thanks Ross!
Great video. Well done on the improvisting.
Wise man... Great suggestions. Thanks ! 🎸🖖🏻
That was a good honest clip! Thank you
Good ideas, thanks!
ThnX, Ross👌🏿👌🏼👌🏽a good lesson‼️🎶‼️🎸
Totaly understand ur point.and this will be my next chapter how to practice. Example :when i solo over basic backing track blues mostly from Quist my solo sound great for novice player..but without track i can not improvize in time not sound good when chord change..i am lost..ur jazz sound in time i could hear chord change and this is how i wanna learn and play!!Thanks
Love your guitar. Exactly the one I want
Great video and notes. Thnx.
Great stuff 👍
Thanks for all your great videos Ross. A very brave and honest lesson...still sounds great buddy! Thanks
Nice. Very nice. Great advice. Thanks.
Let me wrap this 15' video up in a few sentences:
When playing at home try to 1. Keep time, 2. play with harmonic intent, and 3. get out of your comfort zone.
This can be achieved by playing to different backing tracks.
Thank you.
Man your explanations were cristal clear. As a former guitar player & aspiring bass player, I could not agree more with you. I too have shed countless hours rehashing the same stuff over and over. Very seldom leads anywhere though besides the occasional new twist on an old idea.
Practice regimen and practice plan are the key although at first it doesn’t seem to go anywhere.
Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing this.
Great advice
Excellent Advice.
You're a great instructor Ross! Keep it going!
Excellent point. I have known this for years but it was a slow realization and years of wasted time. Now I am ALWAYS playing with harmonic intent and presenting challenges.
I'm in that place now...what a valuable suggestion. Thank you.
Cool video man, always enjoy your content🤘
Thanks David!
Thank you
I understands totally what you says and 100% agree, but the phrase and licks at the front of the video is still rocks and great to show in front of my friends :) Thanks for the great video!
Thanks mate! Exactly where I’m at in my development. Great lesson!!!
Very good reminder... thanks!
Thanks for this, awesome tips!
Priceless good advice.
Very good. I just started to play in the way you suggest in the video. Its a new challenge and it simply sounds way more "musical".
Great inspiration. Tnx . 🖖🏻
Awesome my brother great lesson!🙏🙏🙏 Subscribed
That’s great advice Ross, I often find myself noodling and find when I pick a set of chord changes and just work on that I feel like I’m making progress
Cheers dude. I've been stagnating for way too long, really need to start implementing some of these practice tips I've heard so often from great players like yourself.
Wonderful ...I cannot get enough of this musical genius.🤗🤘🤘
Very very good, man. This is the kind of lesson we should learn from day one. Thanks.
Glad I watched!
Excellent lesson. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Great tips. Thanks for putting it out there.
Thanks Charlie!
Killer advice my friend. Love your playing. Thank you.
Thanks Ross, i was doing the same as, and now I'm going to play over some rythm and tempo
Wieder einfach nur Hervorragend !! Danke !!
Love this video! That’s what I’m trying to get better at, playing over changes with no accompaniment is difficult for me to keep the beat and changes in my head.
Very good video - very good practice advice. I realized while watching that i had been doing your third lesson when i practiced for a while now - I had just started playing to a silent backing track in my head without intentionally setting out to do it. It does help, it really does!! I find for me I need to start practicing more with backing or at least drums actually playing (sort of like a metronome) to try to get more comfortable with maintaining a certain speed on certain difficult solo passages that require a little more speed and dexterity. Also using a backing drum track helps to be more aware of playing around with the rhythm - playing off of, in front of, or behind the beat.
thanks!
Thanks Ross!
Great playing, sir!
'Noodling' - the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? never heard it called that before!!
I was waiting for this comment.
Ross Campbell Mee too!!! LOL
Slack, are you a singer? Or maybe a drummer?
Oh, wow. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked if you were a drummer...my bad.
Very Funny!
Zachary hey
Thankyou Ross, you offer some really great advice mate!
I'm glad that I came across your page whilst looking for some ideas to 'noodle' over......(for which your advice has given me a better, more disciplined approach to my practice and improvisation).
What I particularly liked was your unedited solo's.....which I might add, you are a brilliant guitarist anyway, but you come across as being 'Real'. Thanks again!
Cheers Zane - Perth, Western Australia
I love your mistakes. In videos like this, I get the feeling that guitar players of your level never mess up and I will never get it. Thanks, I am encouraged.
Thanks !!!!!!!!
Thank you so much! Such a great piece of advice. Actually I couldn't wait until tomorrow morning and picked up my guitar right away :D
Great advice!
Great video. One of the best I have watched in the past month!
Brilliant video
great channel! Subscribed!
Excellent playing
Thank you very much for a very good advice to combine licks with chord progression and stick with good timing. Yes, for couple of months I just noodling. Cheers from Indonesia.
quality content thank you sir
Started playing a little more than a year ago. Started playing with backing tracks pretty early on and developed skills like playing in time, filling chords and playing them in between . Eventually moved this to just playing and i’ve seen a big improvement, definitely recommend backing tracks and using metronomes.
Bravo! this has to be one of the best guitar lessons I've ever watched on RUclips... Thanks Ross!
Thanks Lester!
Well that was refreshing, a post with mistakes, thanks. Noodling to me is just going nuts and playing whatever and then I usually stumble upon something that sounds familiar or start putting something i like into something more. But I'll take your advice and try the three steps.
This guitar Master...has something very special.Excellent jammer.Amazing guitars...
Wow😃U nail it.
Serendipity for ur sharing.
Bravo.
Excellent lesson ! I have noodled for years and developed my fretboard and scale knowledge but when people asked me to play I could only noodle or play a song I had memorized lol. This will take me to the next level for sure !
Thanks Ross, your videos and commentary are so thoughtful. Beyond the theory, you provide valuable insight into how to approach practice with the goal of improvement. Thanks!
Thank you Alfred!
very good advanced tips here! Not easy but thank you for reminding me on what I should be doing.
Great lesson, Ross! Thanks so much. I've been looking for guidance to focus my practice time and that video was exactly what I was hoping to find. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Tedd!
Wow, great job Ross....love your video....
Thanks Joseph!
Dear Doctor Campbell, you gave all of us The great prescription for the most common sickness of not just guitar players and not even just musicians but it can bee applied to all humans. All of us are lazy and we do things that we know well and makes us happy without actually improving anything in our lives. We don’t apply consideration, thought or effort. What a great lesson. I, and most of my friends, are around 70 years old and many are gigging musicians and almost all of us noodle around on our instruments. Now you said that it’s the first thing we do when we pick up our ax because it’s easy and it’s fun but it’s also good for warming up and getting things moving. Last thing, we could’ve all been better players if we’d been following your advice for however many years it’s been since we started (50+ years in my case) playing music. Get serious. Much Thanks!
After figuring out all the chords it was almost as fun playing rhythm for your last solo part as it is playing over the chords myself. Awesome video👍🏼
Thank you Jakob!
good job bro !
thnks this open new dimension to me
Really good video Ross, thanks!
Thanks Ben!
Nice Jazzy 30's blues style! kudos1
I adore that you showed us you *practicing*, warts and all, rather then stepping up and playing something perfectly for each demo.