I can lay down (or anyone else, for that matter) an easy track with bass, drums, a keyboard pad sound and anyone can wank their guitar or whatever over the changes. Pretty easy to plug into a DAW with your Gibby or Stratster. I do this on a couple of other sites and the results are usually pretty good; interesting jams, to say the least.
Forgot about this...lol . Thought it was lost forever.
Article I did for BC Musician Magazine on improv for a beginning jazz guitarist. If it doesn't go directly to the article via the link, I'm on page 25.
Nice. took me a while to get to your article, what with the write-ups on Knopfler and Bachman
came to post this cool picture ----V, not sure how I missed your article the first time.
your comment on improvisation is exactly how I started expanding my voice.
playing the same nursery rhymes for my kid 100 times over the space of a week ("again daddy, again!"), I would get bored with the basic and add a diversion here or there. At first they didn't all fit within the context of the original song, but before long, you learn what works and what doesn't