Improvisation - My Thought Process

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  • @Nickball97
    @Nickball97 7 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    E X T R E M E L Y

    • @skatetodeath666
      @skatetodeath666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nicolas Arango EXTREMELY IS RIGHT

  • @TheCorporatePlayers
    @TheCorporatePlayers 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    3:27 - even the closed captions applaud you man, unbelievable.

    • @Mattrocity1337
      @Mattrocity1337 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      holy crap it does. the youtube has spoken!

    • @35POSTCARDSS
      @35POSTCARDSS 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      better than my whole life solos 😩

  • @paulvinova
    @paulvinova 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Rick's so good, that instead of a mic drop, he does a Pic drop at the end of every play.

  • @minimoogle3335
    @minimoogle3335 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    jawdrop..the knowledge of where you are in the fret board and those transitions you make on what it is you want to play next is something i want to fully grasp.. well you are out of this world so i might just get a fraction of it someday

  • @HellionWildChild
    @HellionWildChild 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With simple videos like this you give some fragments of information that are EXTREMELY useful ahah. So inspiring! Thank you Rick!

  • @cc_1983
    @cc_1983 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glad that you acknowledged that a lot of videos online and cherry picked - not as a weakness but I think the illusion is that everything put out there is one take.

  • @StevenLaityMusic
    @StevenLaityMusic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the videos rick. Just listened to your previous improvisation video from a couple years back and found incredibly useful tidbits of information to incorporate into my playing. Was entirely stoked when I saw you just recently upload another video on this concept! Can't thank you enough for your videos (aside from possibly setting money aside to grab a few of your online lessons!)

  • @beysachsolo8542
    @beysachsolo8542 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are the best of explaining from experience. Love your stuff

  • @steevkelly
    @steevkelly 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is the vid i've been waiting on for about 2 or so years. i'd love to learn more about what goes on in your head while you're playing. chops is one thing, but how to make them musical while improvising is a whole 'nother basket of cats. thanks so much for this one - learned a lot - looking forward to more of these.

  • @lukejav818
    @lukejav818 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rick you are such a great inspiration!!!!!

  • @shredsteban
    @shredsteban 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Rick: *shreds* "really simple."

  • @pandapies2988
    @pandapies2988 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    love the fact your videos come out when i only have an hour or so left at work! gets me so pumped to get home and play and makes the last couple of hours slightly less shit :D

  • @whatmattersmarshall
    @whatmattersmarshall 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Every video I've ever taken of myself playing is cherry picked. Atleast I learned that new term. Thx Rick. That makes me feel EXTREMELY WELL OUT HEEYA

  • @guitarmichael
    @guitarmichael 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic advice! That melodic minor flavor is so great! Still trying to learn how to work that into improvisation in a fluid way.

  • @OsoNegr0_
    @OsoNegr0_ 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are absolutely (and extremely) awesome, Rick! Greetings from Chile!

  • @daylight1016
    @daylight1016 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a knowledgeable player! Thank you for the vids man

  • @crispinpollak1473
    @crispinpollak1473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love that guitar.

  • @gjtube37
    @gjtube37 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was excellent! Thanks very much Rick.

  • @evilcowboy
    @evilcowboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A sort of improvisation I tend to do is over the top of an already existing song, I go into it without knowing what kind of lead I am going to play over the song and is on the spot improvisation.
    How I do it to where the end result sounds good is by figuring out the melody the singer is performing where you force the guitar to say the words the singer is saying with the pitch being identical. Doing this gives me a list of notes I can stop on and sustain a whole note, doing this allows me to alter those notes on an octave level and position them in my head on the finger board to take advantage of the entire fret board. Finally I will find out the chord progression so I know where to go next with it.
    Although it is a highly analytical way of looking at the song I still do not know the scale runs, technique and positions I will use and results in it being different every time I do it. That is the improvised portion of it.
    The final way I do it for a rhythm is to simply strum once a chord and look for a chord that sounds good to go to next. I will then improvise a strumming pattern with the chords I picked at random. I will also look for odd finger picking patterns that sound unique that I don't see often if at all. The finger picking can either be used as a rhythm or a lead due to my knack of voicing a tonally high string and sort of pick a serious of notes while playing bass notes providing a melody in the same manner as someone sings words. It causes what I consider a rhythm section to sound fuller than just strumming or picking.

  • @FutureBreed13
    @FutureBreed13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:40 that sounds so beautiful

  • @luckylicks3497
    @luckylicks3497 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    People, if you're looking for awesome educational material, dig up all the stuff by Ted Greene.

    • @tonepoet
      @tonepoet 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      LuckyLicks His Single Note Soloing books are like a wealth of killer melodic jazz lines. I endorse your statement here.

    • @yjmsrv
      @yjmsrv 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have Chord Chemistry- honestly it doesn't do much for me- it's good with voice-leading- but not chord progressions per se unless you just plain love jazz- which I don't.

    • @luckylicks3497
      @luckylicks3497 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yjmsrv Leon White Chord Systems, now there's a new book by someone who has transcribed lots of Ted's stuff.. now he made it into a logical method - with chord progressions. Enjoy

  • @francosuarez3039
    @francosuarez3039 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much Rick!!!

  • @georgel2519
    @georgel2519 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Rick is like a superhero, and his superpower is buzzkill, in like he'll destroy everything you build up with confidence.

  • @venturionn
    @venturionn 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Rick you are the best, i know a lot of guitarists, but to me, you sounds very nice!

  • @abhishekchakraborty6754
    @abhishekchakraborty6754 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    rick ! i love your tone, can you make a video about it ? please

  • @capability-snob
    @capability-snob 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That move to C# tonic diminished feels so good and makes the change to Eb tasty

  • @JariSatta
    @JariSatta 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The 22st Air Guitar World Championships will be celebrated in Oulu, Northern Finland on 23-25 August 2017
    My home town!

  • @simondevine1657
    @simondevine1657 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the tele 😀

  • @stopmotionmoron2373
    @stopmotionmoron2373 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing playing

  • @mwooly1
    @mwooly1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Rick I love your guitar playing you have inspired me and actually taught me some new things to improve my guitar soloing playing, I would love to hear your approach to blues style with your style of playing rather than scales which I can hear moving with the chords, just a thought because I believe you have incredible ability you should be more famous you're as good as the best I think, but as you know, a unique style makes players stand out from the rest, good luck keep up the good work I'll keep watching and learning. 😎

  • @azarguitar
    @azarguitar 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff!!!

  • @artistcarl5970
    @artistcarl5970 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, I enjoyed listening to your thought process... just adds to the puzzle pieces being slowly filled up in my mind 😏

  • @JohnnyGTar
    @JohnnyGTar 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are just amazing. A unique experience man. I wish I was a fly on your ceiling on a day you would infinitely improvise...and I haven't said that to a woman.Ever.Not even my wife.And I'm straight...

  • @riju1991
    @riju1991 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Brilliant lesson. I had one question, after learning major and minor scales and the diatonic modes, what is next step? Fir example you used melodic minor, how did you decide where to use it? By ear or by some theory? Thanks

  • @cbeserra
    @cbeserra 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    For those ready for this level of improv knowledge, this is pure gold.

    • @redhotkido
      @redhotkido 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chris B
      Ball sacks
      Large end ball sacks
      Big balls

  • @FrankBarreda
    @FrankBarreda 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's really good material, there is not so much information of that way of view improvisation , you should do more videos about this theorical-approach of improvisation!

  • @janitorsanonymous7891
    @janitorsanonymous7891 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    u keep getting better, scary

  • @ChrisMurrinGuitar
    @ChrisMurrinGuitar 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jesus Christ this is fascinating to watch!

  • @MarceloRubensOficial
    @MarceloRubensOficial 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    cool guitar rick!!!

  • @kylepatrickmaducdoc1719
    @kylepatrickmaducdoc1719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    man I love the color and finish of this tele! Somehow at the beginning I saw it wasnt a Fender (I tink lol).. I wanna know what guitar brand this is! (if it isnt Fender) thanks!

  • @rust_in_peace5123
    @rust_in_peace5123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish I understood the theory in this video lol. I've played for over a decade, and I have all these techniques down, but I just picked the guitar up and learned assorted licks, scales etc learning songs and leads by ear, watching TH-cam videos... Until I developed a style where I can improvise based on what sounds "right" to me. I have no idea what key I'm in or what scale. Kind of learned all the advanced stuff and never bothered to learn the basics lol. I don't know how to start, either

  • @dr.weeniehutjr
    @dr.weeniehutjr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What diminished chord were you using exactly as a passing tone from the C to the D? Do you just move the root up chromatically or do you grab it from a different relative key?

  • @dr.weeniehutjr
    @dr.weeniehutjr 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also I was wondering if you've ever studied John Coltrane? I feel like his Giant Steps changes would be badass for you to shred over, I can't imagine the kinds of shapes you'd be able to demolish by stacking twos and fives and modulating into different keys, would it be like sheets of sound for guitar?

  • @HSunde-br8gb
    @HSunde-br8gb 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video Rick! I was just wondering, do you prefer to use the three notes per string system when you improvise?

  • @mysticrhythms300
    @mysticrhythms300 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @rwclardy12
    @rwclardy12 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    So which comes first, solo or backing track? I have recently feel in love with the freedom of chord movement like you were doing here without the backing track dictating.

  • @BMCCHOPPERS
    @BMCCHOPPERS 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool video Rick please do more on Harmony and improvisation I also need to get a new TH-cam account since my son has taken mine over lol

  • @przemekratowski3817
    @przemekratowski3817 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice guitar sound

  • @TomasSandanusGuitar
    @TomasSandanusGuitar 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rick, I like your explanation, your tips could increase my playing level... Thanks.

  • @nikukhamo9452
    @nikukhamo9452 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    5.43..love it

  • @auradrifter7779
    @auradrifter7779 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    what kind of pick do you use?

  • @yjmsrv
    @yjmsrv 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also, nice new Tele there, but I always wonder and wish you would always post the details in your notes on your videos, but what "amp" did you use for this? Nice tone here for the Tele, thick and rich- is this through the AxeFX or a real amp- and which one of either? Was it your Nitro in AxeFX (which is my guess) or a real amp today?

  • @simondevine1657
    @simondevine1657 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Rick are you in a band or do solo stuff , if so where do we get to see you play

  • @milanlink1913
    @milanlink1913 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello Rick, are you still using Dunlop Jazz3?

  • @MCalla-jw8vh
    @MCalla-jw8vh 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    what do you think of atonal music, rickham?

  • @TheHenriquebruno
    @TheHenriquebruno 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rick, you are using a audio inteface or a amplifier?

  • @davidtomkins4242
    @davidtomkins4242 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What are Rick's thought processes while improvising amazing stuff? What to have for dinner, whether he left the kettle on, whether hawaiian pizza is a real pizza or not, and the merits of fighting 20 duck sized john petruccis

  • @Taoufiqqaba
    @Taoufiqqaba 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    why u have just 125k ur a guitar god bro

  • @orkuncanatalay3977
    @orkuncanatalay3977 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think its time for rick to go on a world tour with a famous metal fest

  • @Chris.1812
    @Chris.1812 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe you could make separate videos on individual theoretical tools you use in different situations eg diminished chords as passing chords and the other sorts of things you mentioned. This is great but it's kind of going at light speed so it's hard to take too much away from it - bit of a barrage of information.

  • @YTJamTracks
    @YTJamTracks 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Noiiiiice

  • @chazbono5991
    @chazbono5991 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rick’s like the bob Ross of guitar. Going on journeys and shit

  • @danielhealy2524
    @danielhealy2524 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello rick

  • @luckylicks3497
    @luckylicks3497 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Where's your RH thumb nail?! -fellow classical guitarist

  • @Godspeed961
    @Godspeed961 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hi there guys, i dont understand anything of this video, hope u have an extremely good day :P

  • @4466svenjohnpetrucci
    @4466svenjohnpetrucci 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    fucking hell mate

  • @TransformsIntoAGuitar
    @TransformsIntoAGuitar 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    A video about your thought process when improvising over a chord progression backing track would be more useful.

  • @nessmalone
    @nessmalone 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rick Graham RULES!!!
    \m/Ò_ó\m/

  • @SimonGavriilidis
    @SimonGavriilidis 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    If i focused more on guitar i would have been extremely well by now. Instead i focused on an female. Now? Heart broken. Your playing makes me go wow each time

  • @CLdrums
    @CLdrums 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Level of how Extremely well I'm doing = Nuno

  • @steveozone4910
    @steveozone4910 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I slip in-between I also feel augmented.

  • @hypersonicmonkeybrains3418
    @hypersonicmonkeybrains3418 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    95% of this was over my head. when I improv I have no idea what notes or intervals I'm playing. it's all unconscious, I play what I hear in my head that I think will fit over the chords, sometimes I might stick to a scale or a key but that's it.

  • @DragisaBoca
    @DragisaBoca 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Telecasters are the sickest guitars in the right hands.

  • @JoseLuisVasquezGiraldo
    @JoseLuisVasquezGiraldo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hi Rick, What kind of guitar stand do you use to hold your guitars in these kinds of recordings ?

    • @RickGraham
      @RickGraham  7 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      It's called a LAP. Completely free of charge and extremely useful in lots of situations.

    • @JunkieMonkey321
      @JunkieMonkey321 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not only that, but it also comes included in the package as your enter the universe

    • @joshuamichael4312
      @joshuamichael4312 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jose V. He's a classical guitar player so he holds it on his left knee LMAO.

    • @JoseLuisVasquezGiraldo
      @JoseLuisVasquezGiraldo 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rick Graham haha, thanks. I guess it's all about the cam. I'm gonna get one of those :p

    • @bestboy897
      @bestboy897 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rick Graham lmao

  • @omniuc7244
    @omniuc7244 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    so I do some diatonic stuff then I add some widdly diddly diminished stuff then go in to some augmented widdilies and continue playing the rest of my boring diatonic stuff... k will do wish me luck.

    • @shcxatter2
      @shcxatter2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      omniu c it's funny you say that because, most of the new era guitar players, try so hard not to play diatonicaly, that those augmented and diminished stuff actually became boring!

  • @ShreddieMurphyy
    @ShreddieMurphyy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What kind of tele is that? Love the finish.

    • @zackcoffmanguitar
      @zackcoffmanguitar 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      bournvilleaddict mike smith guitars I believe.

  • @joe-un1ky
    @joe-un1ky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you have an equivalent video, but for mere human beings?

  • @yjmsrv
    @yjmsrv 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interestingly enough, I actually followed along there pretty much theoretically-wise- but technique-wise that fluidity of your playing and phrasing just lost me. Wow' your playing is fluid from one chord to the next. Now, I do have one question here- do you think of all those changes as full key changes per chord or more playing off the "chord of the moment" regardless of a "home" key? In other words- staying in key when it's diatonic, but true key changes when you move or modulate out of diatonic chord progressions? Is a parallel key a key change or a mode change in your thought process. Another video that would be REALLY HELPFUL, is not just your thought process, but how you decide to move from one chord to another. Those were pretty "random" chords there really, but I think they flow for you because of your combined jazz and classical background. You're using the diminished scale/chord to move to the next chord, and you seem to use a lot of dominant chords to modulate from, like substituting a dominant chord for a non-dominant chord to move to a new key, like A7 to D, for example. If A would have normally been a non-dominant chord, making it a dominant chord moves the progression to it's 5th, D. Does that make sense as a question?

  • @ferbalceda
    @ferbalceda 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Subtitulos en español pues 🌼🎧🎵

  • @danhenricus
    @danhenricus 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have no idea how to acquire such an intricate knowledge of guitar theory. I'm sure it all boils down to hours and hours of practice. It's probably the lack of structure that it this difficult.

    • @danhenricus
      @danhenricus 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really great video by the way!!

    • @Drip-and-Roll
      @Drip-and-Roll 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      danhenricus check out Rick Beato TH-cam page! He has a college level book for $47 that has all the theory

    • @danhenricus
      @danhenricus 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeremy Thompson Thank you, I'll look it up!

  • @AirGuitar
    @AirGuitar 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    EXTREEEEEEEEMLLLLLLYYYYY Well Out There, i know i am...

  • @roathripper
    @roathripper 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know I am

  • @enzogonzalez8501
    @enzogonzalez8501 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Para los que No entendemos un joraka de inglés o lo que sea... 3:21

  • @MsDavo123
    @MsDavo123 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was too chaotic it would be nicer to play over designed chord orogression and explain how you would build your solo🤔

  • @bassmanjordan1139
    @bassmanjordan1139 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    First comment

    • @danielhealy2524
      @danielhealy2524 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      bassman jordan no one cares

    • @Babs42
      @Babs42 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Everyone cares....

    • @bassmanjordan1139
      @bassmanjordan1139 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know buddy, thought it would be funny :) obviously not

  • @creincreon8223
    @creincreon8223 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    when i can see your perfomance with the other guitaris player such as guthrie govan , play jam together :v

  • @evonic9539
    @evonic9539 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    completely b0nkers m9

  • @globulargoblin7492
    @globulargoblin7492 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:33 Worst sound ever.

  • @TylerGreenMusic
    @TylerGreenMusic 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't fucking get it lol

  • @pzdipuing
    @pzdipuing 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really wish you to marry my sister so I can always learn

  • @redhotkido
    @redhotkido 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shave yo heads man

  • @churchilllaishi236
    @churchilllaishi236 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's nice improvisation.But you were too fast. why can't you play slowly for people like me to learn something

  • @tjnewhook1637
    @tjnewhook1637 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah you lost me at trying to get in tune....