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Practical Intervals in Guitar Improvisation 165 fingering positions you should know for guitar improvisation ![]() by Salim Ghazi Saeedi, Feb 2011 When a musician improvises, all of his/her actions should converge toward playing what he hears in his inner ear, or what he composes in real time, receives via intuition, etc. This way it is important to find structures for the techniques required for improvising. During years I have used some rules for doing so.
So I have devised a set of fingering rules to be able to devote my improvisation energy on creation itself. Of course in devising such rules, I had to sacrifice a little of technique's simplicity. However that anyone can easily master these techniques by practice, the benefit is they can eliminate player's thought process to the minimum in favor of improvisation... These rules have a few concepts behind them: Regardless of the current finger’s position, the player should,
Here I start to describe fingering details of different variations for every interval on different string positions, provided with video examples, tablature/standard notation sheets and Guitar Pro files.
NOTES:1. All intervals here are
presented in ascending order. 3. The variations are in order of preference. So - usually and where applicable - var#1 is preferable to ver#2 Table of Contents
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