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Dangerous Waters

Tutor Richard Barrett | Gear used Knaggs Choptank & Vox AC15 C1 Difficulty  | 10 mins per example

once compared improvising to crossing a river, with the ‘right’ notes being like stepping stones and the wrong ones… well, you’d need a change of clothes! Improvising over anything that departs from the ‘standard’ I-IV-V 12-bar progression requires us to keep an ear out for

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