Ebonshadow wrote:

Those are very cool, especially for only playing 6 months! Here's a technique that could help improve your soloing.

It's called breaking out of "The Box." You said you're playing in the second position of the blues scale right? A good thing to do would be to learn the blues scale all over the fret board. Practice improvising in each position until you know them all fluently. Then when you solo, you can practice switching from one position to another. You wouldn't think that it would make much of a difference, since it's all pretty much the same notes, but each position has a bit of a different sound. When you solo in "the box" or position of a certain scale, you are only playing in one "mode" of it. You can add variety to your solos by breaking out of the box.

Thanks. I plan on learning all of the scale, but it just takes time. I only did those because that's the only position I know well enough to solo in (at least that fast). Thanks for the tip, though!

~>Volte