| Learn all of your scales, I mean all (major,natural minor,harmonic minor,melodic minor,dorian,phrygian,lydian,mixolydian,lochrian,w hole tone,octatonic (half/whole whole/half),blues, bebop, altered dominant) Learn your scales and the chords that go with them at least to the 9th. Also work with b5's,#5's, b9's,#9's,#11's,13's etc. Then learn licks used by other players across certain chord changes and learn them in all keys. Take all of this information meld it all together practice it until you forget it and use bits and pieces with your own stuff. Learning improv is like learing a language, first letters (scales), then words (chords/chordal suggestion), then sentences (licks), and finally take it all and start to have independent thought and speak it with that language. |