is there an “anit-noodling” lesson! :)

[woody h]

I’m loving all the lessons Brian.
One of my biggest goals is stop “noodling.”
Are there good lessons that address this topic?
Thanks.

[sunjamr]

Hi Woody, that’s a question we all have on our minds much of the time, if not every day.

Didn’t Forest Gump say “Life is like a bowl of noodles”? The problem is, most people just leave the noodles all randomly piled in a heap. You have to pull them out one-by-one and stretch them to their maximum length. An organized noodle is a “phrase”, and phrasing is the hardest part for all of us guitar students.

Songwriters write a sequence of phrases that become a song, so what is their trick? Basically we guitarists just need to be able to come up with musical phrases with no words. A good place to start is to find a backing track for some popular song you know, then try to play the melody along with the backing track. After you get that down pat, try to add some embellishment to the melody line. Think of some prima donnas singing the American national anthem at a Superbowl football game. They usually add so much embellishment you can barely hear the original melody in there at all.

Sunjamr Steve

[Jean-Michel G]

Hi!
Steve gave you a very good piece of advice. Starting from existing melodies and “nudging” them is a great way to start.
I also posted this some time ago… It may help answering some of your questions.

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