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ChristopherSchlegel
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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ChristopherSchlegel
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 08/09/05
Posts: 8,380
11/25/2016 2:45 pm

Hey, there! Welcome back to GT.

Jeff gave you some great advice. His main point is exactly correct, you need to build a vocabulary or repertoire of licks. Of things you can play on the spot. The best way to do this & avoid sounding like you're doing scale exercises is to build little phrases that sound like melodies or melodic statements.

Originally Posted by: drakeman

If so, there is anyway to get a guide from the site or a moderator to get a path to follow on the site?

The best path to take is the guided path through the Rock or Blues style courses. But I don't know your exact skill level, technique set or target genre. So, with all that in mind, I recently wrote an in depth blog post about how to improvise or learn to play lead solo.

https://www.guitartricks.com/blog/how-to-play-a-guitar-solo

Have a read through that. It has a lot of links to tutorials from understanding the basics of improvisation all the way to exercises that will get you started on the path toward improvising.

Please ask more if necessary & best of success with it! Let us know how it goes!


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