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Posted by: jonathan on 2010-03-10, 08:05:54
It depends a bit on biology: If you have an ear for music, that'll help a lot for improvising. You should have a theory foundation: know some scales and how/ when they're used, practise techniques, finger dexterity and your sense of rhythm. Also listen a lot to guitar-driven music, copy some simple licks and melodic phrases and use them in your improvised playing. A good technique for training your ear and guitar in sync is to play a few seconds of a guitar-based song, try to copy the notes played, then when you've figured it out, listen to a few more seconds. After a while you'll be able to do it much faster and it'll show in your guitar playing. You can't learn it immediately of course; it does require patience and dedication, it's the kind of thing that just seems to work for you after a good while of trying. |
