A list of things to do to mess yourself up
and stop playing what you already play. Additions welcome.
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Play the melody with
embellishments.
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Improvise within in 1 Octave
(or less.)
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Retune your instrument
randomly.
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Play only on 1 string (or 2.)
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Play 1 Note/2 Note/3 Notes.
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Rhythmic motifs (play same
motif every time, call and response, rhythmic displacement.)
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Play 1 semitone out on all
chords (above or below.)
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Play only in 1 interval (diatonic
or chromatic.)
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Play the wrong song over the
changes (either melody or changes, or both.)
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Anticipate or delay every
change by a bar.
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Play purely diatonically.
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Duncan Lamont scales (see
Streetfighter’s Guide to Improvisation.)
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Play out of time over pulse.
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Play rubato over pulse.
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Miles Davis stuff.
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Play the guitar like you don’t know
how to play the guitar.’
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Play the second (or third)
thing that comes into your head.
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End it before its finished.
