Guitar lesson: How To Improvise The Classical Guitar Way
When I was a fifteen years old guitarist playing rock solos and classical guitar pieces I remember that I had a desire to be able to improvise on my guitar in a classical manner.
Nowadays I have developed this skill and I love to improvise in the style of composers like Sor, Tarrega, Paganini or others or just trying to find myself somewhere among the notes. These special moments are a form of meditation. They clear my mind and also helps me as a composer to stimulate my creative abilities.
The most important reason for learning classical guitar improvisation is that it’s fun!
If you learn classical guitar improvisation it will benefit you in many other ways too:
1. It will be easier for you to memorize classical guitar sheet music.
2. You will find it easier to compose your own guitar pieces in a classical guitar style.
3. You can make up your own techniqal exercises on your guitar on the go.
4. You will understand your guitar better.
There are many ways to develop classical guitar improvisation. How?
You can start with major scales, experimenting with easy chords, or easy classical guitar pieces. The most basic requisite is that you want to learn this art and with this desire you will find ways to practice classical guitar improvisation in all your guitar playing.
I will just mention using classical guitar pieces in this article. But how do you begin?
May I suggest that you begin with an easy melody with just one voice or maybe a two voice piece with bass notes on open strings. Learn a couple of bars by heart and play the melody over and over again and try to change the melody slightly without losing the classical touch.
The ultimate exercise is to use advanced classical guitar solos.
If you think about it you will realize that classical guitar pieces are filled with wonderful licks, more or less complicated.
These licks can be developed and added upon to give you material that will help you developing your improvisational skills.
For example, take a two bar passage in a classical guitar piece that you like and practice it until you master it and then memorize it.
Now you can play around with the passage, break it down, change it, analyze it and so on. If you want to improve as an improvisational guitarist and musician you can regard classical guitar pieces as collections of very musical licks just waiting to be used.
I hope these hints will motivate you to reap the benefits from improvising the classical guitar way.
Peter Edvinsson
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Do guitar lessons help me play in the style of paul gilbert and yngwie malmsteen?
I really like the whole neo classical music where you play classical solos on the guitar or improvise something that sounds like it with scales and modes that make it sound uhh… classically. But what exactly do you learn from guitar lessons and do they teach you to play in this style?
learn & play as many classical scales as you can- especially Yngwie’s favorites: Natural minor & harmonic minor scales…& get to know the fretboard like a bad habit…with full skill of classical scales will come the ability to do apreggios, etc.
Rock On~!
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The website will display correctly on all web browsers except Internet Explorer (Which is the only downfall, but the admin said it would be fixed very soon)
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I noticed when I first started going to http://www.tubestreamer.com a few weeks ago, that there were changes being made to the page every day. I think the site is fairly new, but again has given me answers to most all of the questions I had that were guitar related. If you don’t see something you are looking for, just use the search.
Some Main things on http://www.tubestreamer.com
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2. Guitar Lessons
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I noticed there is also a new section that is a web forum area, and rumored a classifieds posting section for guitars and equpt coming soon.
On the email reply I received from http://www.tubestreamer.com
I was told that there would also be another place added soon for everyone to upload their own guitar videos and tutorials.
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Sorry to sound like I am boasting this site, but I love it, and it has shown me a lot of new things and I have learned to play a lot of new songs this way. Seeing a video is much easier to learn guitar. (Even has some Piano stuff, and recording software stuff as well)
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http://www.tubestreamer.com
If you get a good guitar teacher, than he should be able to teach you ‘their style’. I’m not entirely sure about Gilbert’s style but Malmsteen favors harmonic minor and phrygian scales as opposed to pentatonics. These scales have a sinister kind of sound to them. He transposes a lot of classical pieces onto the guitar as well.
So when you take lessons, tell the teacher you want to learn neoclassical stuff…or you could go online and learn there.
Ultimate Guitar (google it, I don’t think I’m allowed to post links) has an awesome forum and lessons which will definitely help.
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