Free guitar tip - improve phrasing & break out of playing ruts with only 1 NOTE - no fancy theory

Note choice is important, absolutely, but many guitarists look towards new scales or shapes when feeling uninspired or bored with their playing. If you have the right scale for a particular situation, simply playing those same notes somewhere else on the neck probably won’t fix what you are not happy with. Interesting phrasing is as much (or arguably more) about rhythm, space, dynamics...
that’s a side of the melodic puzzle that can be trickier to “practice”. So here’s a simple idea that might help jump start some new ideas. No theory or thinking involved... stick with me, the playing gets slightly less mundane at about 5:30, but it’s the concept that’s the payoff.

[@chrisggoodwin777]

I'm going to apply this to guitar, bass, and drums. So simple, yet so cool...

[@WaZaaap6]

Some of the Best advises and a Practical demonstration to the Beggners

[@skallen59]

Thanks, simple tricks like this is exactly what old (60+) beginners need 🙏

[@garyhundsrucker7771]

Cool.That is something I did once in a great while because I was lame at lead playing and thought it was too easy and being stupid but combining this with that lesson you just posted about using half steps to find out where you are on the scale and your root note then going vertical from the root note to the major scale really helped make sense of the fretboard! It also figures in to how most hit songs are created because I always hear stories of how a guitarist just makes up a little section or riff and then the singer/songwriter hears it and figures out what to do with it from

[@the_original_jt]

Great lesson. Thanks.

[@MrRmaxxx69]

That was like a bomb going off in my head. I can tell this exercise is going to help me tremendously. It’s just what I needed thank you 👍🏼

[@TheReBorn]

Great tip man! Thanks!

[@asentz]

Such a great lesson. I think I saw someone teach this years ago, but I haven’t thought of it in a long while. Filing this away for when my kids start working on improvisation.

[@alanbagshaw7280]

Love it. Thanks. Gonna try this right now.

[@janreutelsterz186]

Great lesson. Great tone.

[@godbyone]

That was cool

[@Electromeo07]

Always love your insights and lessons. You make things so easy to understand. Also love the JHS shirt.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Great stuff here. Musical food-for-thought. Lately, I've been tryin things: similar-to-this - to make my playing sound-more Jazzy. ( and you mentioned John Bonham - too ) Love Zep.

[@todddeweese6456]

Is the guitar you’re playing a McCarty with a P90?