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My method: Step one, learn the scale. Step two, play the scale in time with the backing track. Step three. Identify the changes and see what works in context with the change, just listening to what sounds good when and what doesn’t. Step four. Take the root of the scale and work rhythm of that note over the scale, playing whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, 1/4 note triplets then back and forth between the triplets and eighths then 16th notes and finally moving from 1/8th to 16ths then 8ths to triplets and back. Step 5. Add in just one more note. Take the root of the scale and the second degree and go between the two and see if you can rhythmically keep it interesting while changing the phrase from being centered on the first degree to the second degree, and then change it back. The next two note combo for me is the 3rd and 4th degrees. Then I start connecting the two, adding the note between while still controlling where the phrase is centered, meaning, I make the 2 part of the 3,4 combinations and then make the 3 part of the 1,2 combination. That is how I build the foundation of improvisation. Let me know if you get lost in the explanation and I will try to clarify as needed. Overarching all of this is having fun. Have fun!