Exploring Improvisation on the Guitar

Okay then, guys.

So we're going to check out some approaches to improvisation.

The Coolness of 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.

The Journey of Development

It's something we can all hope to improve on and work on. Those skills, although they don't happen immediately, provide some great fun to be had along the way as we develop them.

Tools for Improvisation

What I'm going to do is talk about a few different tools that we can use, which are at our disposal, to come up with those initial improvisational ideas.

This way, we won't feel quite so overwhelmed by the thought of approaching an improvisation scenario.

So, let's check it out together. Here we go!