scales are vitally important. learn the scales the songs are in. improvisation helps. it allows you to learn from experience why people make the choices they make, and helps you find the easiest ways for you to play lines. listening to a lot of music helps, too.
and when i say learn the scales, i don't just mean play up and down the scale, i mean improvise within the scale. play all the little nursery rhyme songs you can think of, all the way up to the most difficult ones you can handle, and make up a ton of stuff along the way, until you're fluent in that scale. then learn another scale. and when i say scale, i don't mean E minor. i mean all the minors. so learn the major, minors, and a couple blues scales, and learn a mode or two, all to the point that you can make something passing for music in them any time you pick up a guitar, and you should be good for a while.
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