Description

“Noodling” refers to the ability to make the music you hear in your head, whether it’s a country blues, a folk song, or a free improvisation. Teaches a series of specific exercises, which can be used as templates or models to lead you to interesting musical explorations. Deals with various concepts about melodic noodling and chordal noodling, at 3 different levels of difficulty, offering a basic place to start, as well as material to revisit over time, as you advance. Detailed tab/music PDF file is included. Playing from the the heart: Emotional content; C major scale and E blues scale up the neck; If you know C major, you know A minor; Figuring melodies by ear; Higher quality noodling via pattern recognition; Noodling with basic chords; Flatpicking and Fingerstyle noodling; Sweep picking and arpeggios; Expanding your basic chord repertoire; Moving chords up the neck; Composing a line and integrating it in your noodling; Practice ideas for arpeggios.