How can I do this?

11Bravo · #1 01-25-2008, 12:44 PM

What notes or scale,I never really could understand it.Are they just runs or what?
If someone could put or know a place where I could find out how to do this. that would be great.

Stuff like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs9XrQqXlk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JUnCveLTQ

thanks

alankroeger · #2 01-25-2008, 01:06 PM

Scales, modes, an understanding of the chord scale relationship, some arpeggios thrown in and scales connecting individual elements of the soloing.

Main Elements: (Search terms)
1) Scales, Modes
2) Arpeggios
3) Chord/Scale relationships

Lots of practice, lots of learning so get started.

mutedeity · #3 01-25-2008, 02:16 PM

A good teacher can help.

alankroeger · #4 01-25-2008, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mutedeity

A good teacher can help.

Sure couldn't hurt I have had a few good ones... make that great ones, lucky me

A broadly general question will frequently get you a vague broadly general answer or worse a few unkind remarks

11Bravo · #5 01-26-2008, 08:26 PM

could someone put a "run" up so I can learn it.

Foxworthy925 · #6 01-26-2008, 09:48 PM

Why not learn the theory behind the run so you can make up your own "runs" for anything you feel like?
Edit: OH ****, I didn't mean to come off sounding like a jerk when I said that.

ToddC · #7 01-26-2008, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 11Bravo

could someone put a "run" up so I can learn it.

Go to the Ask Todd Johnson forum here at TB.
He has examples to download.

Learn to play melodies from songs you like. Learn to play the chords. Then play one or the other or both concurrently. Then change the melody, style, tempo, key....

Hope that helps

HaVIC5 · #8 01-26-2008, 10:30 PM

That stuff is very advanced improvisation. It won't do you any good just to learn it for the sake of learning a "run".

kerryg · #9 01-26-2008, 10:48 PM

11B, the vast bulk of what Matt's playing there are simply major scales.

Oh, he's playing them really fast - and often he's starting them from different notes (that's called "modes" if you haven't run across the term - playing from Bb to Bb but using the notes of an Fmaj scale) - he's playing arpeggios of the chords derived - but basically 90% of what I just saw is major scales or modes thereof. The first chords of that progression (remembering I just listened to it once through fast) sound Lydian. There's not much "exotic" harmony in there that I could hear on first listen.

You want to "go there", practice major scales (C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C in C, but practice them in all keys) and jazz minor scales (C-D-Eb-F-G-A-B-C in C, but in all keys). Those are the building blocks Matt's using; that's where I'd start looking for fluency and fluidity, practicing those scales in two octaves at least, in all keys, and all over the neck from top to bottom.