Hello, I hope everybody is doing well.
I have been focusing on my improvisation for the past year, and I have been struggling with how to practice improvisation. I started out using backing tracks and that got me to the most basic level, but I feel like now it's not helping me improve as much.
Lately I've been improvising without a backing track, by singing a melody and playing that (because if I don't I end up playing the same old licks), and occasionally have been doing the same with backing tracks too. I got this exercise from a John Mayer video—it's hard not to play with muscle memory tho.
Anyway, my question was if there was any other exercise I should be doing to practice improvising, is there a better way?
Thank you in advance,
Jonax
Working through it too. Melody and playing the chord changes. Tomo told me when I joined GW and posted an improv I need to study guitarist and have a direction. Stevie Ray , BB, etc I’ve been looking at some of those styles to find my own beyond knowing the notes .
Thank you Cruz! Shuffle bassline & R 3 7 Swing Groove can really help you to hear blues forms and chord progression. Go back to a little older blues players from SRV and BB King is so good! Live at the Regal "Everyday I have the blues" , Blues is King "Blind Love"
Blues is so deep! Please enjoy your guitar jorney! I just don't use any backing tracks from YouTube. Even someone offer me a lot of $$$... I cannot play with these backing tracks! Not great for my soul! No connection with feeling. No conversation!
Tomo
Thank you very much, I have been listening to a lot of blues, SRV, B.B. King, Freddie King, and especially Rory Gallagher, but I haven't been studying it so much. I'll make sure to listen in a deeper sense and to absorb more of it. Thanks again.