With the previous blog post of bringing up “improvisation” when discussing Neil Young, to those who are new to all this, this youtube videoblogger is right on the money of what “improvisation”, really is. Being able to play what you hear in your head, to keep it small and simple. This is one technique in music I’m trying to improve on and slowly getting better too! I do want to be a “master” improviser at guitar, but it takes time. Like I said before, the key to being good at improvising is memorizing the sound of the notes in your head, by singing along with it and stuff. All that jam band stuff like the Grateful Dead, Phish or DMB, those are all improvising bands. Led Zeppelin were an improvising band during their live concerts back in the 70’s.

“Improv”, I believe is the most overlooked technique in music. Not a lot of guitarists around here improvise and they don’t really have a good ear when they don’t want to admit it. They just noodle around until they hear something good.

When you get good at improvising, and will be able to play everything you hear, that’s when you know that you just became a real musician. This teacher, Andrew Wasson, is one of the best guitar teachers in youtube too. I follow his videos on a regular basis.

Kev