Egh, I can't stand metal solos sometimes... even though I generally don't play metal. All my solos are improvised... but I mainly play blues/jazz/folk/rock anyway...
I don't necessarily hate it... I just get tired of it after hearing one or two songs To me it's just one of those genres that are interesting for a change if I'm feeling a little uninspired.
I improvise a lot in my solos, but it's not some technical stuff I do. It's pretty simpel to hear the right notes, when you hit them and know a wrong one so you wouldn't hit them the second time. So by some before the middle of the solo you know exactly what notes are right, and which ones are wrong. And just go through the right ones with all the guitar tricks and stuff you know.
A lot of my stuff is just improvised modified pentatonics.... nothing truly technical either... Well, except for jazz... but that's just a lot of quick runs, barres, and triads anyway...
As things are, pretty much every project I'm involved in musically these days is 80-100% improvised-- sometimes using a basic (predetermined) framework or structure, sometimes nothing of the sort. Free improv, "spontaneously composed" ambient soundscapes, just-plain-fun power-trio jams, or whatever...
It's easy to come up with new ideas that way... spontaneousity... Kind of like Phish's cover of hanson's mmmbop... lmao. james brown...
i do it all the time. ive got well over two hours of song melodies or chord structures that ive improvised while sitting around stoned, and played around with for a bit to make unique or smooth im not the best player though. i just want to make music that sounds good, im so sick of kids learning guitar and jsut playing other peoples music and getting all technical but having no soul to their playing. i play music to create, and often ill rather listen to some of my impro reels or finnished songs or just play, rather than listen to known artists. i have to be in the right mood though. theres a p[articular mood i get into when stoned and i just pick up the guitar and make awesome sounding stuff! other times i pick it up caus im bored and it sounds shite. i really need to have that creative energy inside. but yeh often messing around with two scale positions caus im too lazy to learn them all. i think i should though
i have now decided, guitar is too easy. time to finally take up the mandolin i got a few months ago. not that im gonna quit playing it, but i think i taught myself too much all at once, and i want to try other instruments besides keyboards so i dont get tired of it. at least until i can afford a classical guitar.
Too easy? What, you're 19 and you've already mastered the guitar? Hmm... Nothing against branching out exploring new sounds/instruments/techniques (hey, I'm all for that), but don't let yourself fall into thinking that any instrument is too easy-- it just means you haven't dug deep enough.
I hear you 100% on "playing music to create", and I'll sometimes listen to jams or improv sessions I've participated in instead of CDs by other artists. I think it's good for or musical development to be able to go back and listen to what we did. Were my ideas clear? Did I blend well with the other instruments dynamically? Did I overplay/underplay too much? Did what I play fit well musically in the larger group context? So on and so on... The million dollar question now is "can you improv well if you're not stoned?" Nothing against playing while high (I've done plenty of that myself), I'm not trying to preach to you or anything like that. Stoned playing can certainly lead to some interesting musical situations; however, that's kind of a bummer if weed is a necessary tool for "unlocking creative energy" or whatnot... I actually prefer playing sober for the most part nowadays-- my mind is more focused, I'm able to concentrate more on what's happening around me musically without gapping out for stretches at a time on whatever it is I'm playing. Just my 2 cp...
Too easy? What, you're 19 and you've already mastered the guitar? Hmm... Nothing against branching out exploring new sounds/instruments/techniques (hey, I'm all for that), but don't let yourself fall into thinking that any instrument is too easy-- it just means you haven't dug deep enough. what i mean is, everyday now when i come home from work, I pick up my accoustic and I just automatically can play all the songs I always wanted to know when I was younger, I mean I'm not saying I mastered it, I've only even had an accoustice since I was 16, and I'm self taught so it's not like I know everything about guitar, but I just can figure stuff out so easliy on it, like The CLAP and Mood For A DAY, some GENESIS, some other classical and jazz stuff, I just mean it gets easier and easier everyday. i always wanted to learn MOOD FOR A DAY, and two nights ago i sat down and learned the whole thing from memory in about an hour, and i listened to the song on my way to work yesterday, and i definitley got it down note for note.
ive though of this; see i used to write music from impro when sober too. but then i realised its just so much better, smoother, more'fun while stoned. And so ive acostomed to being comfortable while stoned. I dont really care that its half due to weed, it still came from my head, just more quickly and instantly. And in the end, ive only written and recorded one song entirely stoned. thats borken harded, if youve looked at the songs i posted. I get the instant ideas and sounds when stoned. but to actualise them into a song i find its often better to be sober. depends. Im lazy when stoned, i just like churning out ideas, (sometiems good, sometimes just that i get intranced in, that arent that conventional).
All my solos are improvised. That for me is the best thing about playing with people. Playing for the moment and letting the song develop. I would describe it as reaching an orgasm. For technique, I'm mostly doing unison bends, and just chromatic shit all along the pentatonics. I play like Neil Young. Ah I love playing my guitar.
heh... I improvise and play so many different instruments, I could probably do the same kind of thing as keller williams. I've already gotten a lot of his guitar playing and some of his recording tricks and techniques down...
That hardest part about improv is not the actual thinking on your feet, but the fact that you have to stay in character. But, despite that, I enjoy it, and am somewhat good at it. But you idiots are talking about musical improv, so fuck off.
