Improvisation

Reference         "Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below." --Joseph Addison

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Learn Scales

This is a good exercise to help expand your improvisation vocabulary. First, learn a few scales.

A nice dark G Phyrgian(SP?) will work well ()=root(the G note's)

- - (3)- -4- -6 -
 
- - -3- -5- -6- -

- - -3- (5)- -6- - 

- - -3- -5- - -- - 

- - -3- -4- -6- - - 

- - (3)- -4- -6---  

• Play that a few times just to hear what it sounds like. Now play a phrase that is 4 notes long but avoid the root. Sounds kinda incomplete doesn't it? Now play that phrase again but end it with a new note that is the root.

• Now play the scale in different ways. Such as two steps at a time.(ex. 3--4--4--6). or two strings

Exp.- - -3- -4- -6- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

   - - - - - - - - -3- -5- -6- - - -3- -5- -6- - - - - - - - - - -
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -3- -5- -6- - - -
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Find new ways to play your scales

The key to unlocking the potential of you scale arsenal, is to be aware of all that you can do. So spend 15 minutes a day just playing your scales in as unusual patterns as you can. The more complex the pattern. The better. You'll discover in no time, what your scale playing can really do.