What kind of music do you improvise to and how?

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   I pretty much always improvise, or rather 'jam' when playing guitar so anything. if there's other music or sounds going on i will improvise to them but if not i will still jam.

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Sumdeus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 23 2012 Location: SF Bay Area Status: Offline Points: 831	Posted: December 12 2012 at 16:06
	I pretty much always improvise, or rather 'jam' when playing guitar so anything. if there's other music or sounds going on i will improvise to them but if not i will still jam.
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Slartibartfast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630	Posted: December 12 2012 at 15:48
	When it comes to straight up improv., I don't listen to anything I just give into it and play alone. I usually make more interesting music that way on keyboard than guitar. I can't do chords for sh*t. But I like to pick up the acoustic and play along to whatever I'm hearing. I don't try to mimic or riff off of guitar parts necessarily. Keyboard and synth I usually just improv solo. I love keyboard synth because how you play the keyboard is dependent on the patch set you are using.
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Ambient Hurricanes Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 25 2011 Location: internet Status: Offline Points: 2549	Posted: December 12 2012 at 15:30
	I improvise without accompaniment a lot when I'm practicing or just messing around on the guitar. When I really want to practice my soloing skills, I will usually record myself playing the chords to whatever jazz song I'm learning at the time and then solo over that.
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Dayvenkirq Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970	Posted: December 12 2012 at 15:27
	A few years ago I would just improvise to ADII's "Soap Shop Rock" (what a dumb idea on my part 'cause there is not much room for me to stretch out on the electric guitar) and Floyd's "Echoes" and "I'm A King Bee". Nowadays, I would just improvise on the electric guitar to mostly classic rock and classic prog. So far, I'm a failure, although I do think I've stumbled on some intriguing ideas while playing over the same chords from the middle of Yes' "Astral Traveller" (where Mr. Peter Banks gets to stretch out), Gm and C (although I think that on the track it's not actually a C but something else). Are you a guitarist? A keyboardist? An oboist? A tubist? What tracks do you improvise to? By whom? EDIT: I've extended the premise of the thread a little bit. Given that I struggle with improvisation, I want to know what the people here think about when they improvise. (It really is a shame that I haven't put that in my OP early on. Damn me. ) Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 25 2016 at 11:45