Micky Lee

Vienna-based guitarist Micky Lee presents an improvisation method built around pivotal melody notes rather than running scales and arpeggios. Using the simple harmonic progression of Blue Bossa — just tonic, subdominant and dominant in C minor and Db — he shows how to take one small fragment at a time, explore every variation within it, and paint the bigger picture step by step. What's covered Why a vast number of melodic choices overwhelms inexperienced improvisers, and how restricting them helps The chord changes of Blue Bossa, walked through bar by bar Basic voice leading : keeping a common tone (the note C) through the changes Treating one note as a revolving point that other notes resolve toward Approach notes : all the diatonic and chromatic ways to reach a target tone (B, D, Db, Bb to C) Using rhythmic freedom to make even a single note interesting Scales and arpeggios still play a role here, but sparsely. Intermediate and advanced players will come away improvising more thoughtfully, with more fluent solos and phrases that connect naturally to one another.