Originally published at: Guitar Phrasing Explained - The Basics - Olicana Music
This weeks lesson is on guitar phrasing, everything you need to know to stop sounding like a scale and be more musical when you improvise. It covers motifs, call and response, leaving space, acquiring vocabulary, and modifying your vocabulary to create original phrases on the fly like pro improvisers. If you feel that your solos just sound like scales, or would like to play more in a more musical and engaging manner, I think you will find many of the ideas in this post/video useful.