This may be one of the best covers you’ll ever experience. Noah Gundersen is a legend in the Seattle area and he’s unbelievable live. Great sound. Great arrangement. Brilliant vocal. Gut wrenching performance…you’re welcome.

Cheers!

Free form noodling. Connecting triads across string sets in the key of G.

It's been a long haul for me but this is starting to make sense and I'm pretty excited about these triads. I was expecting a key change for this track but you kept it in D so I didn't have to think too hard!

I think what I enjoy the most from exercises like this is the opportunity to revisit everything I've learned on Guitargate over the last 3 years or so. Connecting chord shapes across the fretboard with simple melodies, working with inversions using dyads and triads to build on that melody, mixing major and minor (a little bit), incorporating a few double stops here and there. It also encouraged me to really think about the timing (which I'm learning is not as good as I thought it was) and feel of each note and or chord and being OK with leaving open space and some time to digest the story. That's what I appreciate as a listener and what I hope to achieve when I eventually release more original music (whenever that day might be). I perseverate on details far too much to be happy with most of my improvisational playing but I really had fun scripting this one. It's far from perfect but it's progress and a reminder of what I'm working toward. I really am trying to get better and I know I've got a long way to go so I'd sincerely love to hear critique from anyone who's willing to take the time.

"If you don't want the truth don't ask. Just make up your own like everybody else."
~Eddie and the Cruisers

Cheers.

(I realized that I posted this in the comments the first time because I wasn't paying attention and it didn't group with my student videos)

Improvising using the blues scale over a well known chord progression in E minor

I wrote a blues song to work on my blues scale. The solo is time stamped.

Incorporating double stops into a guitar part that a friend asked me to write. Wondering if you have any tips on intonation and string noise? Anything obvious that you see technically that I might be able to improve on. This is recorded direct-in to the DAW without the mix so the flaws are obvious. Hopefully that might help point out what I can work on? Intonation-wise there's less margin for error higher on the neck and I get particularly clumsy up there. Thoughts? Thanks Michael.

Shoot! Attached the wrong link! Sorry all. Here's the one I meant to post.

This is an old tune of mine that I thought might be fun to improvise over for the blues lesson. I feel like I could've done more with it but got a little stuck in the same ruts. Always happy to hear feedback on theory, tone, technique...anything really. I tried to attach an audio sample of the verse/chorus loop to see if anyone else wanted to show me how it's done but I have, to this point, been unsuccessful at that. Anyway, thanks as always for any insight. Cheers Gaters!

I vi ii V in Bb

So Groovy.

Minor 7th Chords. Still goofing around with the DD8. I'm not quite feeling the scales as well in positions 3 and 5 on this one but I'll get there.

I've been itching to move on to this course for a while now and finally the time has come! Major 7 chords in C and G played in all 5 positions. Just messing around with a Boss DD8 delay pedal to make it a bit more interesting.

Not a lesson...and not improvised, but since you said "whatever the heck you want..."
Found some isolated Beatles tracks and had some fun. Explanation is in the (Youtube) description. Hopefully some folks will enjoy this. Cheers!

Improvising in B minor with the full scale. Had a few snafus but attempted to play through them. Fun stuff.

I've been sitting on these last two lessons for a while now. I know my major scales up and down the neck but putting various positions into action in the context of chord changes has been a slog for me. Once I start following my ear I have a tendency to lose track of my positions so I've really been trying to focus on that. Making progress though I think...

Wanna feel something? Brilliant song. Incredible singer. Gorgeous piano part. You're welcome!

No guitar in this one, but David Ramirez is a straight up, first position chord, singer-songwriter. I'm interested to hear how that translates into this beautiful piano part (Matt Wright). Cheers!

Simple 1,4,5 in A minor. I stayed on positions 2 and 4 for the most part. I sometimes get a bit turned around when I start following my ear and then lose track of the intervals so I think that's why I stayed in these positions.

It takes me a long time to finish a song and I managed to wrap this one up over the weekend. I mostly write for myself these days and I generally learn something in the process but it's always more fun to share and I guess I'm emboldened by the kindness y'all showed today. I hope that's not too gratuitous. This one's about love and family. I'll be honored if some of you happen to give it a spin. If it connects with you in some way I hope you'll leave me a comment. Cheers! Steve

Found a nice slow groove that would give me time to think.

Hey Michael. I've been practicing your lessons and techniques by working on some simple solos over cover songs. In this case I looped the solo section and played until I found something I liked (with special attention to vibrato). It may not seem like much, but before I started your course I would've noodled for an entire day to come up with this, and with your help this came out in 5 verses. I'm not a shredder and I never will be, but I love your insight on melody and feel. Thank you for giving me the joy of simple improvisation. I'm having more fun playing guitar than ever. Love your course and your vids. Be well. Hopefully it's successfully time-stamped. If not, the solo starts around 1:10.

Doing my best in E major

Improvisation with pentatonic scales in A (and the relative minor of F#). I have never been one to improvise. I have always tended to practice until I can play without mistakes, and then I try to practice more until I can play with feel. I had the urge to redo the vid but that's not what this is about. So...as Michael always says: "you get what you get!" I had no intention of playing for 6 minutes but once you start noodling the time passes pretty fast. Cheers!