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I don’t play loud music after lunch. Ionian,Dorian,Phrygian,Lydian,Mixolydian,Aeolian Locrian ( modes)

Thanks, I was curious about your comment. In your original post you also talked about melodic licks. Since melodic licks are usually based on arpeggios I have a feeling you have been using them unwittingly.When ever I find some combination of notes that sound good.They usually turn out to be arpeggios.When I add expressions (bends etc.)to them its about the only time I feel any emotions in my solos/improv Eric Clapton’s song, “Bell Bottom Blues”come to mind where his intro is based on arpeggiating through the chords.Speaking of Clapton,he seems to use the pentatonic scale a lot,so it’s not the notes he plays, it’s more about what he does with them. Some of his musicical ideas seem to be based on old blues music and guitarist like Freddie King and Robert Johnson etc.So he has a starting point. One solo I constantly go to for inspiration is David Gilmours first solo in Comfortably Numb. Chord tones and a lot of expressions.

This month I have been working on some sessions of the L&M Blues Guitar and Blues Licks from Justinguitar. So my entry is not really an existing song but just a blues in Gm with some improvisation. I was looking for an appropriate name, and found out that Celestine is a sky blue mineral. I am making my first (baby) steps in improvisation, and any comment on my trial is appreciated. Thanks for listening, Wim.

Today was like a giant step forward.The last few weeks, in my evening practice session I’ve been working on sequencing in the key of C (pattern 7) like BCDC EDFE etc. I finally memorized that pattern ascending in the 7th position, so tonight I set the metronome to 72 and started with C E then I added the G then combined those sequence pattern notes back and forth with notes in pattern 2,3,4 1 and 5 of A minor pentatonic.I targeted the C chord tones on the neck and roots and. 3rds from the other major scale. I used the metronome so that I would always start on a beat or hold a note for whole or half beat etc. Well, anyway I could have done this for hours, it sounded good and it really opened my eyes to how to use these scale patterns.One other thing I liked the 7th position low C and E so much I would come back to those two tones numerous times.A few bends and slides and vibratos and now I am hooked. The one draw back is that I think I found a beginning for a improvisation in the. key of C , but I can’t say that it had a middle or an ending and I haven’t a. clue about what I was saying. Plus I need to figure out “call and response” because without it I think I am just rambling.Well, there’s always tomorrow. Now that I am writing this it dawned on me that I forgot the chord progression, So I was just rambling. ? Tomorrow I will start working on putting it into a 12 bar blues format.Also the 2nd pattern of Am pentatonic scale overlaps the C. Major scale pattern 7. I also had been working on the caged system.so I new the C chords in the 5 caged patterns on the neck.And evan though I didn’t change to the 4 and 5 chords I see how that wouldn’t have effected my note selection much.It would have added two notes.I could have picked more notes by using the blue notes. Sometimes just rambling on in this forum really helps me think.