In Deep by Andy Aledort
THERE ONCE WAS A NOTE
A great challenge for exploring new soloing ideas is to play improvised lines up and down a single string. There are a variety of benefits to this approach: primarily that it pushes one out of playing “learned” positional lines and patterns based on muscle and visual memory; additionally, this approach forces one to be aware of the specific articulation techniques — slides, hammer- ons, pull offs and bends — that are pretty much necessary to play lines in this way, which in turn plays a major role in the way any given melody “speaks." As usual, the more creative and adventurous one chooses to be, the more there is to discover.
