John Fogerty's solos are incredibly melodic, catchy and memorable, and they even require some chops to play!

You wrote such a beautiful song! Great job!

drop ur bandcamp I wanna buy your song!!!

Please keep making music its absolutely gorgeous

Thank you for existing and having made that, it was my favorite submission

hope you know BRAIDS or Blue Hawaii, your voice reminds raphaelle's voice, so beautiful!

miss you!

I'm very musically noob but I do this when I'm playing with my kalimba app. Helps me practice my ear too!

Taught a friend to do that. I recorded her playing a piano solo 4 bars in a jazz piece, told her to practice what she played. It took her about 30mins to really learn her melody and perfect it, and as we went on, it was tricker for her to connect her newer solos to her previous solos. However, it really boosted her confidence on improv!

I remember having a light bulb moment when my jazz band teacher in middle school said that 95% of what he plays in a solo is things he'd practiced 1000x.

If I'm ever teaching anybody something like this, I'm going to pose them this question. After all of the spelling and writing sheets you did in your early years of English, does that make you less inclined to speak the language in person?

Agree

I don't get how this is even a question lol

Please explain this to the improvisation teacher :v

... Or is it?

I think what they mean is that it loses a certain essence to it. Like the difference between reading about a sunset and seeing a sunset. There's a certain quality of raw emotion that comes with creating it on the spot. That being said I'd much prefer writing a solo and then embellishing on things live. Adding a small lick or taking something out etc.

great job! all the best :)

Do you listen to H3 or HasanAbi by chance?

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@@famatu I listen to Adam Neely 🥰

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Where can you find the song? It’s not on Spotify or KZfaq from my quick searching

Somebody tell me when you find the song or artist. I love Joni Mitchel and this gave me the same feeling.

Same!

@@taffyrooster look in the video description, there is a link to Joli's channel.

I get a lot more creative when writing music, rather than playing/improvising on the spot.

@@SuiTobi I actually agree, I often write much cooler things than I improvise LOL. I composed my string quartets and about 90% of my compositions away from any instrument, and I just use a pen and paper to get the ideas down.

Also for me! The guitar solos I play in my head are way more adventurous than the ones I play on guitar for real…even if they’re drawing from the same lick library so to speak!

IMO, it's also a good way to improve improvisation.

Mind blown by that track too! I love the rawness, I don't even see it as a demo, it's a finished product to me!

Sounded great, I'd listen to more!

You have a great vibe, happy to get to hear your song!

@@ElliottKleinguitar thank you so much for your feedback! I appreciate it!!

@@gav_mac thanks

If you listen to it backwards then re-write it, you'll have yourself a John Petrucci solo. I agree with this style though. No matter how many times you play it, it won't hit you quite like just sitting down and listening to it. You'll find so many little changes you want when you listen to your own playing.

Thanks!

Yeah this is more or less my approach as well. Whenever there's some lead to be written (be it a fill or an entire solo), I usually give it a good 2-3 rehearsals where I would improvise (we record everything new with a Zoom recorder) and then just stich together a solo from that. Fairly often, though, it turns out that all I need is the first time around done, and then it all kind of writes itself, as I have something that grounds me in the vibe/effect I'm going for.

Depending on what type of song i'm doing, that's close to my method. On some songs I feel more comfortable just bouncing around a scale, but on songs where I feel need a really epic solo, I'll freestyle over it multiple times and whatever I like, I try to do again the next time, and after 5 or 6 reps I've usually got something i'm happy with. I may or may not record each of those iterations as I'm going through. I've also got somewhat of a formula ish that I like to reference when making solos, namely that it should have some slower parts that are more open driving rhythm, and some faster parts that are more trying to show off, and some parts where it climbs or falls steadily, and some parts where it jumps up and down. Once I've hit all 4 of those checks, just sprinkle in some embellishments like pinch harmonics or bends or octaves or triplets, and i've got something that genuinely makes me excited about being a guitarist.

David Gilmour famously used that technique when writing the solo for Comfortably Numb

Do what feels better for you. I find more hard to write It down solos and play. Usually I can't play well like the first time I played. Writing down melodies or a theme and playing it don't botter me too much as playing solos as written. Maybe I have to pratice more. Idk lol I think it's just a matter of preference anyway.

100% this was David Gilmour's approach through Pink Floyd's heyday. Can't go wrong matching the spontaneity of improvisation with the intention of practice.

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Thank you so much for liking my song ❤️❤️

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@@gracebevill it's really good!

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@@AdamNeely a reply from master, how generous of master🙏

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@@humblenoob7631 thank you so much for commenting because I had long forgotten about this! Just liked it on Spotify ❤️

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Link in description I believe 😊

yes please

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I second that; looked in yt and bandcamp, no results; please help @AdamNeely

There's a link in the description.

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I do think that is a valid concern, but I also feel like there's not really that much else that can be done with this medium. At the end of the day, I think there are really only three major categories of artistic critique: 1) identifying technical flaws (things that the audience may notice and distract them from enjoying the art) 2) identifying traits of a work that fit into an existing cultural/historical discourse (things that the audience may notice and believe for themselves about the art) 3) helping the artists develop a unique voice (ensuring the audience picks up on the things the artist wants them to) The problem with 3 is that only a teacher who knows the student extremely well can successfully help them become more like themself. So in a medium like this, if there's nothing to say about 1, the only professional contribution Adam and co can make is to 2. It's almost like a match-making service: "based on what you've shared, it seems like this is the conversation that your art will be most readily understood within, and here's how you can shape the way you express yourself to communicate more effectively in that context." It's then up to the artist to decide if that's really where they want their art to land. If it isn't, and they don't want the audience to associate them with that genre/style, then they will know that they have to bring to the forefront other aspects of their art that show the audience how what they're doing is, in fact, not that thing. Perhaps the framing could be a bit better (eg "what we hear in your music" may be more accurate than "how to get good at music") but at the end of the day, even categorizing someone into a system of existing musical tropes is actually extremely helpful feedback, as long as the recipient of the critique knows that they're allowed to take it as descriptive rather than prescriptive.

@@japanada11 I really agree with you about a lot of this. Music is another form of communication and, if willing, an artist can get some feedback from their peers without it turning into a needless re-shaping of their idea. More of a guiding hand (especially in a professional sense). Existing ideas/tropes can totally help too for people searching for a way to better express themselves. I totally agree with framing this format a bit better too. Noticing things in someone's music instead of pinning influences (Oh you definitely listen to/sound like Bon Iver) is kinder to the creative process, and dignifies the path the artist took to be inspired enough to express themselves in the first place. Speaking in general though, and not specifically about this video's format: Not everyone out there is trying to "play better." A lot of people express themselves, for themselves. I think a lot more people need a lot less "play good, play confident." I feel that it stigmatizes creativity and turns it into competition. Art is here for all of us to appreciate, it does not have to be performative. Not everyone needs KZfaq's endless Blues Pentatonics HowTo suggestions every time they log on. I suggest everyone who's making music or being creative to take a break and forget what they think they know, or should know, about music and listen to something completely different or go to a show and feel something instead of being tutored/shaped into confidence. Then come back and think about what sounds good or bad and see if it matters at the end of the day.

Very good points - was in the process of writing out a longer comment when I realized I was just quoting you every couple sentences, adding something to the effect of "good observation" or "yeah that's a good balance to the previous point I made," so rather than go point by point I'll just say that I appreciate the added nuance. My goal was just to make sure it was mentioned somewhere in the thread that there is value in a "here's what your music sounds like to me" response, even for people aspiring to develop an individual sound, but at the end of the day I definitely agree with you that it's a problem if that's the only kind of feedback one gets. There's definitely a need for voices like yours to say no, sometimes you need to stop comparing and just go do something unexpected and weird and you.

@@japanada11 I love this, I’ve thought of it in more words a bunch in these videos, you’re exactly right. And said it well. When there’s no mistakes or obvious basic techniques to suggest practicing, it has to get more stylistic and norms based.