Originally posted by taylormarkow
improvising is just playing around with a scale, and making it sound good. i like e minor pentatonic for improvising.

You have such a long way to go! A scale is like a palette you chose your colours from. A solo should be an enhancement to the song that contains it... maybe presenting variations on the melody, or suggesting new ones. Learning scales that fit the key of a song may help to reduce the possibility of dropping a 'clunker' into a performance, but without a sense of melody, you are just floundering about, hoping to stumble on something that fits.