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Hey @MiRu ;
I don’t think it is necessary to “approach” the Wednesday lessons any different than Tony suggests. Learn the “scale” pattern he shows you and play around. Just play it over and over till it’s ingrained in your fingers. Then play it against the backing track as long as you want and are having fun. You can literally do this for hours. Find different rhythms, different articulations, etc.
Remember you need to have some kind of pattern, or “motif”, something you return to that our ear becomes familiar with. Also, not too much repetition or it will sound boring. But not too much unique or there won’t be any “order”. So find something “cool” and play variations of that. Don’t go all random, but don’t get stuck in a rut.
Just play around. That’s the ticket. Until you find stuff that sounds good. Another thing to remember is that some notes sound good when you land on them and hold them, and some don’t. Use the notes that don’t sound good as “passing” notes, just hit them and move on. You need both kinds of notes to make a solo sound good.
Anyway, have fun.
MG 😀