[Terry B]

@Loraine you’ve just answered an area of my question that I never even thought of and the light bulb moment was when I read “and not in any particular order”, now this makes so much sense. I’ve been trying to play the EXACT sequence of what Tony has been getting us to learn, i.e. the lick in the exact forward or backward sequence, playing every note in the correct order.

Can you see how I’ve been struggling, even though Tony teaches great licks, playing them exactly the same whilst improvising is watching paint dry.

WOW this is such a massive light bulb moment for me, just pick 4 or 5 of the scale notes out and play them and then pick the right sounding moment 3 or maybe 4 seconds later to play any of the other scale notes. If you’re struggling with this @Berndog use a metronome and slow it down and then try it. If its still to fast slow the metronome down even more or more or more, even if its 50bpm, who cares, as long as you play along no matter how slow it is and the timing is nice and smooth, then eventually you’ll add the notes and for me… I won’t want to stop

Then start doing the occasional slide or bend, nothing major (no pun intended) to start with, just some little extra add on sounds to make it your own. @Loraine, you are an absolute diamond. For you maybe, this is just natural stuff, but for me, @Berndog and any other members reading this that questioned the same struggle, will now also have the same light bulb moment.

@Loraine, priceless thanks

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  Terry B.