Sounding Right

Bmx check this out
https://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=11

There are no rules to improvising. If something sounds good to you play it.

Here's a link to Improvisation Lessons

Joe

As long as you stay with in the Key, then any appropriate chord or improv is within the rule.

jonnyt
What do you mean by staying in key :?:

Staying in key means only playing notes that are to be found in the key that you are playing in. So, if you're playing in C, you improvise with the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B and if you're in Eminor you would use E, F#, G, A, B, C, D.

Theory, keys, etc.
There's too much stuff to learn. If I had known there was going to be so much stuff to learn (other than learning songs) I probably would have never started. Now that I'm enjoying my guitar so much, I can't give up.
Shannon

Naaahh. Never too much to learn :D

A little music theory goes a long way in making things easier, not harder... but it can be confusing early on... and the way some books present it makes it harder then it has to be.

If you learn the Circle of Fifths and the order of sharps and flats then it's easy to know what's right or wrong.

Here's a good link on the Circle of Fifths: http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Theory/23-Circle_of_fifth.asp

C = no sharps or flats (count forward five C, D, E, F, G)

G = has one sharp (count forward five G, A, B, C, D)

D = has two sharps (count forward five D, E, F, G, A)

A = has three sharps

I think you see where this is going. Order of sharps is as follows:

F, C, G, D, A, E, B

You can remember this by "Fat Charlie Goes Down And Eats Breakfast"

Now, if the Key of G has one sharp in it... it must be F sharp (G, A, B, C, D, E & F#)

If the Key of D has two sharps in it, they must be F# & C# (D, E, F#, G, A, B & C#)

The order of flats is just the opposite of the order of sharps.

You could also buy a scale book and take note of the notes being played.

Thanks Jonny. I'll check it out. :) :) :) Shannon