About the practice sessions

[Lee]

This entire series on improvising is designed to help you build your fretboard knowledge and guitar improvisational ideas in small useful steps. Knowing the fretboard means a lot more than just knowing where the notes are. Learning to apply any of it into a meaningful composition or guitar solo requires a lot of experience and the best way to build that experience is in small stages. As this series progresses you will be building your skills to think about the fretboard not as a series of scales and patterns, nor just a bunch of chords but an avenue of endless ideas that will eventually stream through you in an instant. No time will be wasted with in depth discussion, if you think something is pointless or you don’t understand it then ask about it right here. Technique building will also be included but mostly we will be thinking more about what we can play rather than how we can play, at least for now anyway.

Some of the jam tracks will be created solely for practicing certain sessions and might be a bit cheesy sounding but the chord progressions is what will be important. It’s important to play along with the jam tracks though so that you are developing your ear as well as your knowledge. Spend a lot of time playing with the chord tone sessions, this is the key to making your solos “self supporting” I.e. Your should aim most of the time to have your solos reflect the chord changes so that even if there is no backing track you still get the feel of when a chord changes and what it is changing to.

Have fun

[Fender13]

10+

Thanks Lee!

[Lee]

Oh yeah, if you can't find a jam track is cos I'm uploading it now.

[Lee]

And don't forget to check out the new CAGED lesson, it's a kind of primer to what we will be doing in the practice sessions over the months.

http://www.fretmeup.com/lessons/showthread.php?t=139

[Gareth]

Thanks Lee

This is a great series.