Andy Timmons: Focusing on a blues- oriented soloing approach

For tabs and text of this video lesson, see the July 2024 issue of Guitar World - Check out Andy Timmon’s new instructional course, “The Art of Story Telling“ MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons BLUE CONDITION Over the next few columns, Andy Timmons will demonstrate a variety of strategies he likes to employ when both composing a melody and improvising a solo over a specific chord progression. The approach he takes may be built from blues-influenced phrases, sometimes in combination with targeting chord tones or with a nod toward a modal approach. For each of these examples, he’ll simply improvise over the progression “in the moment” and then step back and see what tools he used in crafting the phrases. Thumbnail photo: Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images #AndyTimmons #Themefromaperfectworld