There's multiple ways you can kind of think of how to improvise, but what I tend to do is I have very many many short phrases and general patterns memorized, and transcribed. For example, I have a few chromatic enclosures (bebop vocab), and a bunch of common sequences that can applied to arpeggios and scale. Most of it is basic on its own, but it's when you start connecting all of them together where you get interesting flowing lines. Where I think a lot of guitarists can go wrong when it comes to learning fusion and jazz, is trying to transcribe and regurgitate extremely long phrases, which can serve to make that vocabulary more difficult to fit in many situations, and also has a side effect of making it sound like you're copying someone note for note (it's just more obvious to the ear). Trick to sounding more versatile and original with your vocab is to learn lots of little bits and pieces and figure out how you want to connect them. For me personally, opening up the Omni book, and finding four 2 bar phrases to memorize and play all over the neck is more helpful than trying to memorize an 8 bar phrase and regurgitating that.

TLDR; Learn shorter melodic phrases, and practice lots of fundamentals when it comes to patterns and sequencing scales/arpeggios. You'll be able to connect all of the ideas in more interesting ways, and when in doubt, always go back to the blues :)

@@BrianSheu Thanks for sharing your experience! It's exactly my case, I able to transcribe long solos, but not able to reuse these ideas at all. What you can suggest for interesting patterns and arps - maybe some book or whatever? I hate to play scales, up and down up and down. But many time I hear how people able to apply patterns in impro, it sounds good.

@@BrianSheu BTW, my favorite song from Omnibook - Blues for Alice!

@@SuperBatiskaf I don't really have a book to recommend since they're all probably pretty similar across the board, there's also lots of free resources, lessons on patterns and sequences on the internet and youtube. It's up to you to figure out which ones you like!

that's the sound I make whenever I listen to your artistry Ian!