Hi there, I’ve started to work on my improvisation skill and I realized that I can’t hear the chord changes on Dm backing tracks (I posted a topic a few months ago sharing a Dm backing track that I like and I think that slow 3rd position is my favorite way of playing, at least at the moment), do you have any advice on that ?
I also some questions about improvisation in general :
-What’s the matter with scales ? Am I supposed to play them over the backing track ? To select note from it ? To play them but to make “jumps” (like cutting a part of it) ?
-Also, how should I practice ? Should I just improvise over the backing tracks that I like everyday, without putting much thought into it ? I love doing that (in fact the most fun I had playing the harp was improvising) but I’m afraid that I will “stagnate” if I just stick to that. Should I try to write down the licks that I come up with when improvising ?
Here is the backing track that I was speaking about earlier :
Could you highlight the chord changing please
I really can’t hear them
Thanks in advance for the answers, and also, I’m French so English is not my main language, I hope that I didn’t made too much mistakes and that my post is understandable lol
Hey. The first part of your question is over my head. I don’t know much about chord changes. But as far as scales, I practice skills a lot when I first started. I kind of found out that it really gave me a good base. Especially blues scale. Skills are just a comfortable place for me to go back to when I kind of get lost. But I feel the same way about backing tracks I just like to improvise and just play with the ones I like. I’m not sure if that’s the best way but I think the main thing is to have fun.
