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At one point, I learned a whole lot of theory and totally understood how to choose a scale for a given chord, knew all my arpeggios, etc. but it never sounded like jazz. I had to spend a lot of time learning the vocabulary of my favorite artists by learning their improvised solos to move past this.

George Benson was big influence on me of coarse, especially the 'Breezin' record. These days there are so many great guitar players like James Muller who I've transcribed a lot of but also sax and piano players like Lyle Mays a beautiful creative player.

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Love this video & how you explained it Ben. Thank you!

Really useful commentary here Ben, and useful material for soloing. Listening has been such an important one for me, always great to be reminded of how important listening is.

Great tips Ben. Thanks

Teaching is an absolute art, you proved it throughout this video, Love from India

Great video - such important points. I've really focused on developing my phrasing in the exact way that you described here. Thanks again 👊

Great vid man!!!

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Yeah man i started guitar a bit more than 4 years ago and i'm still stuck in the pentatonic madness master phase i'm trying my best to get out of there though, love these videos for this ! thanks

Learn and study the great american songbook which has Blues Ballads Bossa and Bop Songs by G Gerswin I Berlin Cole Porter Antonia Carlos Jobim Jerome Kern Thelonius Monk Harold Arlen Charlie Parker L Bonfa Wes Mongomery Herbie Hancock and even Brian Wilson these guys have a consintant body of materisl which utilise tried and tested aspects of melody harmony and rythmn then you ear should be be ready for some of the fusion and classical stuff Its good to have hobbies you never get bored

Love your musicality, man, also extremely good videos, thanks! Regarding my improvisation issues, I'd say that although I do have some formal music education, enough to understand what's going on, when improvising I just let myself play whatever, by ear... it's not a nice approach, especially on non-diatonic changes... but the thing is that willingly or not, I developed my own patterns (riffs) and now, to my ears, every solo of mine sounds exactly the same, which sucks. THings do improve when I actually sing what I want to play, but not by much... I think that's the lack of further vocabulary... IDK.

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Great lesson. What would you say is best for the beginner-intermediate player, in the order of : 1. Scales, 2. Chords, 3. Arpeggios, 4.Tirades 5. Modes 6. Improv?

I just play random notes mixing major scale, modes, arpeggios, pentatonics, the happy accident method. Sometimes it sounds like I know what I'm doing haha.

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Biggest impact on me as a guitarist, 1. Eddie Van Halen 2. Yngwie 3. John Fahey 4. Eric Johnson All great improvisational players !

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could youj make a video on creatng original and actually nice sounding riffs or leads to a song please?

I don't know where to play lead when changing chords.

yeah, my improvisation sounds artificial. Unable to get a smooth and effortless flow of notes. I can follow the chord changes via chord tones and use pentatonics in different keys, but smooth flow of notes is missing. At least, I feel it to be so. My audience is not able to make this out, but I am not happy with the flow of notes and phrases.

I know no theory, but I play wonderful, improvised (not written) melodic solos in multiple genres. I don't know what key I'm in, what scale I'm using, the names of the chords that I use, or the KEY of ANY of MY OWN 20 instrumental guitar releases. I even faked my way through Berklee for a couple of semesters ... just using my ears. Isn't soloing .... just ..... SINGING? So, bottom line ..... learn to sing on guitar. Right?

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