Jamming Ammo - Jamming Around Positions

Now try playing your phrases over the riff and improvising, swapping between scale position 1 and 2. You can try the call and response method where guitar 1 plays 8 bar solo in position 1, followed by guitar 2 playing 8 bars solo in position 4. Try to mix up the combinations so that you both come up with new phrases, helping to improve your ear and your ability to imitate new sounds. End by each playing for 16 bars at a time, using both scale positions at once. Learn how to move between both scale shapes and look at developing new phrases that merge the 2 scales.

This example merges from position 4 to position 1 and back again.

These ideas can be taken and used to improvise over any E minor chord progression. Now you have your arsenal of jamming ammo you can look at improving your jamming through Playing Techniques.

More articles on Jammin Ammo

• Secret weapons
• Call and Response
• Building up phrases
• Expanding the scale
• Moving positions
• Jamming around positions