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How To Incorporate Melody In Your Guitar Improvisation

By: Francesco Amico

A common problem encountered by nearly all guitar players who are learning to solo on the guitar is to sound more "musical".
What does "musical" or even creative mean anyway? Well, there tons of answers to this question...

On the other hand, a very essential notion is very often overlooked by guitar players...Your solo must ALWAYS refer to the melody of the tune.
No matter how many licks and scales you know, if your solos have no connection with the original melody of the song, you are going to turn off your audience big time!

So, how do you add more melody to your guitar solos? Here's a simple approach to to practice it:

1) Choose a chord progression/song melody (pick a song that you know well, e.g., Autumn Leaves)
2) Start playing the melody for 4 bars
3) rest (or just play chords)
4) Solo over the chord changes that come next

Do this for 30 minutes and then invert the order:

2) Start improvising for 4 bars
3) rest
4) Play the song melody

Then, relax, do something else and, after a nice break, go back to the guitar and play just for the fun of it.

Be patient practicing this way for some time. You will start noticing that your improvisations will have more song melody and will sound more like compositions, rather than a mechanical display of scales and arpeggios.

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