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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
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03/21/2026 3:36 pm

Congrats on working through the courses!  It sounds like you are missing some fundamental music theory concepts to integrate all those licks & ideas you've learned.  So posting this in the music theory forum is exactly the right decision.


Try working through this collection of tutorials on the basics of improvisation.  


https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/learning-to-improvise


These start relatively simple, but get more complex quickly.  The essential idea is that improvisation and all musical forms are a process of finding the key (meaning the appropriate scale to use), targeting chord tones and then making musical phrases (i.e.: melodies, licks, lines).  These lessons are done in a generic style because the ideas are applicable to all styles of music.


After that you might benefit from these tutorials on how to use these music theory concepts in a blues style context.


https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/217/


https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/2380/


https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial/2768/


Hope that helps.  Please ask more if you have more questions.  Keep practicing!


Christopher Schlegel
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