[Niels]

Nice and relaxed, as usual @charlie_d
Great job 👍

[Niels]

Nice one, @Fletch 🙂
Happy birthday, @stevep 🎂

[Niels]

Nice video montage.
Happy birthday, @JulieI 🙂

[Niels]

Thank you @albert_d 🙂

Much appreciated.

[Niels]

Thank you, @Jonathandavid , @Marisa and @jacquicf@gamil.com for your kind words 🙂

Sorry I skipped the Oingo Boingo improv.
I am running through all improvs this year, doing them once, and as Tony scrambled the improv order when changing to the new TAC format, I skip the ones I have already done.
I am a lazy dog 😀

[Niels]

No need to keep strictly to the scale.

Great and enjoyable performance.
I love the fast runs 👍

[Niels]

Thank you, @JoeW 🙂

The guitar is a Yamaha SLG200S – a so-called silent guitar.
I bought it for scale practice when watching TV with my wife, but it has proven quite versatile – and easy to record from.
It has got a single piezo pickup, but running the signal through an Hx Stomp multipedal (just visible in the lower left corner) helps a lot 😀

[Niels]

Great use of octaves, @charlie_d 👍
New strings?

I thought it was forbidden to play “Smoke on the Water” 😂

[Niels]

Thank you, @charlie_d and @loraine for your kind words 🙂

[Niels]

Awesome improv, @Jonathandavid

Great use of octaves in the middle section, and as usual a nice melodic flow 👍

[Niels]

It most certainly is , @IrmelaH 😀

Hope your hand gets better soon.

[Niels]

Thank you, @Marisa , @fly , @Dan D# and @Marty69 , for your kind words.

Much appreciated 😀

[Niels]

Awesome version of one of my favorites.
Great fingerpicking and song 👏

Your voice is pretty close to Stevie Nicks – mezzo-soprano?

[Niels]

Thank you, @catmckinnon
Much appreciated 🙂

[Niels]

Thank you, @dr_dave – so nice to hear from you again.

Thank you for listening carefully.
I am really glad that you liked the improv – even if I must admit that I did not make it with a specific person in mind 😀

In this improv I tried three things:

• stick to the B and high E strings
• use the scale double stops as much as possible
• really cut down on the number of notes.

and as you say, it came out a bit melancholy and sugary.

At first I thought that the spicey part you mentioned was a trick I was pretty proud of: Using the same lick over the major G -> F chord progression and the relative minor Em -> Dm chord progression.
But then I realized that that part was 1.49-1.59, and that the stuff at 2.06 was just me forgetting where the scale was – so it was pure luck 😂