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essentially "I know all the stuff and can play every scale but I can't play good solos myself"
the solution is two fold...
- repertoire: learn lots of songs and lots of solos
then
- experiment with what you have learned: you are exercising your creativity
so... try to turn one lick from the solo into many by changing small bits and noting the impact these changes have in context..
play over the song you've learned and use it as a backing track to try out your experiments..
some of what you come up with will suck bad...
this is good.. finding out what don't work is as important as finding out what does..
if it sucks in that context.. solution... don't do it again..
if it sounds great... you're onto something
noodling with the guitar is as [or more] important than learning all the scales, arps and theory
because ultimately, your ear rules the roost
The question has nothing to do with actual vocabulary, as the title suggests, it's about making the things you know instinctive.
You can do absolutely everything you've claimed and still be no closer to turning knowledge into instinct. It's no use at all if you work out a shit ton of things you like and are then in a world where you play those things over and over. What do you do when you come up against a song with a 13b9 chord and none of the things you've pre worked out work on it?
What good is stating that your ears rule the roost (which is bloody obvious) when you don't have the ability to have them interpret new sounds and deal with them instinctively.
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You are both right.
Just viewing the learning process from different perspectives.
It really helps get the 'sound' of things in my ear and places them in a new context on the fretboard, whether I'm learning a new scale or concept, transcribing a line, anything. Further more, timing, phrasing and melodic direction are vastly improved too. It really helps harness the knowledge that a lot of us guitar players obsess over, that lot of horn players I know don't seem so hung up about. I wonder why that is eh?
bailing out of this cos people like me are clearly not helping anyone...
laters
Yes two great players I have huge respect for. I think there might have been an unfortunate misunderstanding.
I just don't see how that comment helps anyone.
By all means come in and say "this is how I do it", even contradict me, but to divert people away from my content by inaccurately summarizing it?
I can't see how people don't see where I'm coming from.
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If anyone has any brains, they'll have read the comments that have provoked your wrath and had even more reason to watch your video and make their own mind up eh?
this is a misunderstanding that is entirely of my own making..
I did see the vid from start to end.. liked it too..
I thought the fella that did it, did a very good job.. and points made in it resonate with me because I do similar things myself..
unfortunately, after watching it I was in a rush to reply cos I had to be somewhere and running out of time..
wrote what was in my head at the time but didn't write it at all well..
"the key points are made in the first one and a half minutes..."
should have been [I intended it to be understood as]
"the key issues are stated in the first one and a half minutes..."
because like the fella in the vid, I see this a lot too from my own students and guitar playing friends..
it's a common problem..
my intention was never to be "don't watch the vid"
my suggested solution is not 'instead of what's in the vid'... it was intended to be 'also try'