Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name

Bored with playing the same predictable rhythms when you’re improvising? Break it up using the rhythms in your name.
Use one of your names to get a short, basic pulse or all of your names to get a longer rhythm to work with.

Say your name aloud and feel the rhythmic pulses in it, especially where the stressed syllables are. If you want some other ideas use other names. Here's some interesting rhythms from the guitar world:

Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Elliot Easton
John Lee Hooker
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Grateful Dead
Queens Of The Stone Age
Florence And The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers

The stressed syllable is the downbeat. Now try this:

1. Pick 1 and play any scale using the rhythm of that name.
   Pick 2 and play any scale mixing the rhythms of those 2 names.
2. Once you get going you don't have to stick to the name if it gives you more, different ideas: allow creativity to arise.
   
3. Freak Out!

Did this spark some ease, bring some life back into your jams?

Leave a comment below. I'd love to hear from you.

Cheers!

Bryan