How to Start With Improvisation

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[@duffmanfunktromb8114]

Jazz guitarists: just play

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Also Jazz Guitarists: But don’t play the most important notes

[@snackdaddystudios]

Don't play the butter notes.

[@dep7up]

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[@HeyJoeyYea]

1. Learn the pentatonic base pattern, master it. 2. Extend it for the shapes along the fretboard. 3. Extend the pentatonic into the full major scale and minor scale, master it. 4. Understand the underlying arpeggios existing in those shapes. 5.Master transitioning from playing the full major /minor scales to its pentatonic shapes and arpeggios when needed to emphasize the characteristics of the scales it self. 6.be familiar with multiple genres, their typical sounds and characteristics. Imply every thing you know from the scales structure to "speak" in the language of the genre. 7. Understand the modes are just the same major minor patterns you already know, just the root positioning on different degree on the same scale. 8.Experiment with moving some notes in each scale a semi tone forward or backwards, result in new exciting scales with their own uniqueness and characteristics. 8.1 At this point your ears are already so familiar with the feelings and intonation of any musical interval which allow you to just break all the rules and just play what ever sounds good to your ears. 9. Congrats you're playing jazz 10. enjoy buddy, you are a masterpiece.

[@Larrymh07]

I've been playing for about 50 years and am beginning to think I don't have a melodic bone in my body.

[@alec554]

I thought so too but the more shapes you learn and learning where the roots are you’ll start to hear melodies in your head

[@Larrymh07]

@@alec554 Thank you for that tip and for the encouragement.

[@smartaleckduck4135]

I always like adding the note in between the 3rd and 4th notes to the minor pentatonic to make the minor blues, that tritone makes it spicy

[@ArthurMorgan268]

Like intervals?

[@zephyrmusic_]

Bro tritone is between the 4th and the 5th, the note after the minor third is the major third...

[@pewpewlesay1345]

@@zephyrmusic_ he explained it kinda weird he meant the 3rd and 4th note of the pentatonic scale which are the 4th and 5th of the root note idk

[@maxwellblakely7952]

Explain things in intervals. You’re adding the b5, also called the blues note or the passing note.

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[@VolkerundWallyMusic]

Very good Performance, great Video

[@unlucky_thumb]

Been struggling with that for a while, probably the most helpful video I’ve seen

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[@ishko108]

well, our brandon is nothing if not consistent, gotta give 'im that. especially with the just leave shtick. lol. but he gives some legit guitar advice, no joke about that.

[@SeraphOfTheNine]

Being able to picture it before you play is great advice. 👍

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[@TheFunkyDad]

Best advice ive got

[@deassassinwolf1156]

Ive got 4 of 5 Pentatonix scales memorized. Ive been soloing over jazzy stuff and its pretty fun. Only problem is i have a rising 12th fret😭

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It’s always interesting what laymen people think about jazz musicians.

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[@Will-lh4lh]

Very true thx man

[@tomgamblemusic]

Phrasing and lyricism bruv. Phrasing and lyricism.

[@jonronquillo3988]

Always phrygian. Love phrygian!! Great video

[@alecmiller5296]

The absolute goat

[@kirkcavanaugh1493]

That is sound advice

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[@Mjrockin]

Trying staring at your fingers for 10 minutes before playing and I bet you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to play. I guess it’s like directing the flow of neurons to your finger and hand muscles

[@sungear]

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[@namanable]

I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT...

[@KaguraHono]

Hi, i just started playing guitar 3 months ago (acoustic guitar) and ever since then ive been playing for every single day and do finger exercises like alternate picking, hammer ons(not that good yet) and speed exercises, but i really want to start to learn some music theory on guitar so if you have any idea can you recommend me how should i begin learning music theory?

[@Industry-insider]

Just watch some videos, you won’t learn it in one sitting it will probably take a while before you totally understand it

[@defaultdan7923]

i wish i could offer a counterpoint to the reply but it really is true. you just kind of have to start piecing it together based on videos about that stuff as well as some research of terms you don’t know. I do recommend watching fret science, since he has some very good videos on how to simplify things like that.

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Look him up. Hopefully my vague clues can help you, but i can't get any other comments through (I've literally been trying for 15 minutes now 😂)

[@xavlamou4401]

Heyo my guy Write Keywords ( *highlighted* ) down for future research as this is dope ass theory. All of this can be learned in 15 minutes a day without learning every note, just the shapes and how they relate. (Its all about building your instinct.) It will make you understand the WHY of music rather than the HOW, wich you seem to be practicing pretty good! So yeah, lets start with: *Tones and Half Tones* ! The frets are all based on half tones. Pick any note, go up two frets, thats a whole tone. Go up one fret, its a half tone. First lesson done. YEAH! Then, the most basic template of all music theory, very good excercise for the ear if you dont think about notes too much. *Scales.* You can start on any fret/note, first note will be your *Root.* Major scale ( *Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Tone-Semitone* ) minor scale ( *Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone* ) (Write those two formulas down!!) (Oh and, notice how they overlap?) You will build muscle and ear memory by practicing this, you wont even need to think about it in a month or two. Practice this on one string (horizontal) and the first 4 frets (vertical). As long as you land on the *Root/Octave* you can go up, down, diagonal, whatever. Next lesson. Learn the pattern of *Octaves* on the fretboard (spot every E, spot every A, etc...) Third lesson done! WOOHOO!! Then, a bit of theory! Thats where it gets.. *Spicy!* (Start adding that when you are getting confortable playing major/minor Scales.) How tones relate to the Root. We call that *Degrees.* (Often written in Roman Numerals) I Root *Tonic* ii 2nd iii 3rd *Mediant* IV 4th *Subdominant* V 5th *Dominant* vi 6th *Submediant* vii* 7th Those notes also represent *Chord progressions*. When playing *Lead Guitar* you start on the Root of the chord thats being played and fuck around the Scale until the next chord and so on. Chord Progressions are essentially how you tell your story trough music. Second formula to write down: Major Chord Progression ( *M, m ,m, M, M, m, Dim°* ) ( *I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii°* ) Minor Chord Progression ( *m, Dim°, M, m, m, M, M* ) ( *i, ii°, III, iv, v, VI, VII* ) See how these relates to capital letters/numbers? Major: I-IV-V (M-M-M) minor: i-iv-v (m-m-m) A song/story usually gets told when you usually add 3rd, 4th and 6th, and sometimes 2nd, 7th (even 9th and 13th! 2nd and 4th, just an octave higher hehehe). We call them *Colors* my guy! And its basically like telling a story. *Initial situation - something disturbs the peace - peripeties - resolution* I-V is bland/linear af. I-IV-V tells something because of a little color I-V-vi-IV and I-iii-IV-V have colors, tension and... Resolution! Most modern popular music is I-V-vi-IV ( *4 Chord Song-Axis of Awesome* is a dope sketch regarding that!!) Blues is I IV V Etc... To build complex songs you need to learn the association of *Dissonants* (ii, vii°), *Consonants/Tension* (iii, vi) and *Resolutions* (V, IV back to I) (vi-I and iii-I doesnt resolve as good as V-I for exemple) Look up *Chord Progressions* (Common AND Unusual chord prog.) So yeah, thats like half a year of applied theory right there!!! But its a solid base to start with. Further down the theory road you will learn about *Relative chords* (Minors and Majors), *Substitutions,* *inversions,* *Modes,* etc... But thats some wild/fun shit for jazz, gypsy, classical, metal and stuff. Enjoy! One love :)

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BIG FUN IN THE SUN.

[@Arthur-Verlaine_66s]

these guy are kind of people who I want to be friends with

[@MBCMSPR]

how do i memorize it in every key though? i know one position for every key, because i know the fretboard. find it hard to believe that i'm just supposed to memorize every single position of every single key

[@andrewweaver8687]

The just quit was fucking 🤌🏼

[@AlexSaheli]

But what are the shapes? Min penta, minor, major, melodic minor... Else? Modes?

[@user-xn4mj1wl5r]

The way he talks is so funny.

[@ChristianCMC]

Where do I find all the shapes? How many are there?

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“NOW JUST LEAVE!! 😡”

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White pick guard Tele!! That's what's up

[@FindTheLongestWord]

How do I get good at guitar man I suck.

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Hey man, how do I sign up for your newsletter lol "Now just leave!" 🤣

[@JNCSBasvesh]

What's a melodic motive

[@NaisanSama]

I only know the C major scale

[@jackmurphy687]

make the shape smaller boys. you'll actually play things on purpose

[@thatghy6]

Idek what a key is

[@strumptavianroboclick5596]

My problem, I can play a bunch of shapes, but I don't know where they start..

[@TheOtherJackBlack]

When you say visualize it, like you mean literally see it in your mind? I'm one of those unlucky people that has Aphantasia so I can't actually see anything when I try to imagine something, you might not have a good answer if you don't have the same issue but do you have any suggestion for how to circumvent that???

[@PianoPianoPianoPiano1276]

Dog so fucking legit

[@penaldothegoal]

What is a motive

[@BinarySecond]

What's a fookin shape

[@humanprobably9110]

Wait, there’s other pentatonic shapes

[@caolan8081]

There’s 5

[@shocks6025]

What is a melodic motive, please tell me

[@soulfire7860]

What do people with aphantism do tho

[@hruiz93]

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[@Timi7272]

How do I memorize the whole one on the whole guitar?

[@idiot178]

you dont necessarily picture it as a whole, it comes to you piece by piece going left or right the board

[@polterheist77]

look at the scale shapes as if it's a chain, you'll start to see that every position is related with the next and it'll all connect and come together

[@itsnotthebest2067]

@@polterheist77 could you elaborate please?

[@polterheist77]

@@itsnotthebest2067 look at the pentatonic scale (imo is the easiest scale to memorise because it's only 5 notes). you'll see that as you go up the different positions that each end of the scale shape/position is the beginning of the next shape/position and if that doesn't click you can look at a scale map/diagram that includes the entire fretboard instead of just one position, but it can be a little confusing to look at at first

[@daft4682]

Wtf is a "shape"?

[@leexcite2903]

How do you impov with change of chords bruh i cant wrap my head around it T.T

[@ZrankFappaH]

That’s partly knowing where to play on the fretboard, depending on what the chords are. And also having a good ear, which we can all train to improve upon. Like if there’s a G chord, you’d ideally want to learn where all the positions are on the neck that you could play the root note G, and what the mood of the song is, would depend where you play.

[@oliverj.8266]

Fuck do I do if I can't visualize at all😂

[@Kriegter]

I love dissonance

[@Kian9100]

Ok I Quit

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Are you angry?

[@poser_disposer]

Step 1: get off the cigarettes

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[@sahitsaaco1169]

Copying da dooo😂😂

[@theelderskatesman4417]

There is no such thing as a "minor pentatonic shape'. It literally does not exist. You should stop resisting music theory bro

[@moss-idris]

Great advice..but lose the obnoxious delivery 😅

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[@bm3410]

This is a horrible way to learn how to improv.