GUITAR TRICKS

[sadromanticghost]

Well nice to see you again..Here is my problem..I think i have a good technique...I think i know theory..I think i study a lot:2-4 hours a day...But when i'm trying to play an improvising solo...I always play a simple scale....I am sure that and other guitarists do that but with another way and it sounds completely different....How they manage that..?...Where do they find these killer licks and phrases??

[lalimacefolle]

Well, that's a tough question. You have the technique, the theory, but you play the same scales???

Which one do you play?

Don't forget that improvising is about telling a story... Here's an advice I learnt at berklee: http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/trick.php?trick_id=3609

[Slasher]

When you play the scale solo's do you put play it just as a scale or add bending notes, sliding, triplets, harmonics, more than one note? Also mix the notes in the scale up, that's how I find licks, jumbling notes into a different order, then adding phrasing to it.

[river]

ya got to have somethin to say. play stuff and use the scales as fill in between phrases . forget the scales and just find a good lick then play a scale, then answer the lick and stuff like that.too much scalin is dry and too much freestyle loses meaning. so use contrast.