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Lesson time: (1min 0sec)
James Barratt introduces both melodic and rhythmic approaches to improvising on the guitar - taking the ideas in your head and getting them out through the instrument.
This lesson is part of the course Rockschool Guitar Debut
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Lesson transcript:
Okay then, guys. So we're going to check out some approaches to improvisation.
Improvisation has got to be one of the coolest things that you can do on the guitar. At its best, it's you taking the musical ideas in your head and transferring them immediately onto the guitar.
There's a really cool feeling when you get that right. I'm sure your guitar heroes that you've seen live or on YouTube videos have some cracking improvisational skills, and it's something we can all hope to improve on and work on.
Now, those skills, although they don't happen immediately, offer some great fun to be had along the way in developing these skills.
What I'm going to do is just talk about a few different tools that we can use, which we have at our disposal, to come up with those initial improvisational ideas and not be quite so overwhelmed by the thought of approaching an improvisation scenario.
So let's check it out together. Here we go.
