THE 5 STAGES OF IMPROVISATION (ft. Matteo Mancuso)

Guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso demonstrates the 5 stages of improvisation. Massive thanks to @MatteoMancusoofficial ▶SUPPORT PATREON◀ ▶FOLLOW ME◀ Instagram: ▶MY COURSES◀ 🎸Beginner: 🎸Intermediate: 🎸Intermediate to advanced: 🎸Acoustic: 🎸Guitar Looping: Hi, my name is Paul Davids! I am a guitar player, teacher, producer, and overall music enthusiast from the Netherlands! I try to inspire people from all over the world with my videos, here on YouTube. If you want to know more about me, check out or check out my guitar courses at: and , and Thank you for watching! Paul Below is the gear and services I use to make these videos. They redirect to websites and provide me with a small kickback should purchase any of these things. ▶GEAR LIST◀ ▶SFX & Background music◀ ▶MICS◀ Vocal mic - Guitar mic 1 - Guitar mic 2 - ▶SOUND◀ Soundcard - DAW - ▶VIDEO GEAR◀ Camera: 16-35mm: 24mm: 35mm: 50mm: 85mm: 24-105: 0:00 Intro 0:57 The plan 1:25 The track 2:32 Fundaments of improvisation 3:20 STAGE 1 - The Pentatonic Scale 4:15 Variety of the same phrase 5:20 STAGE 1 JAM 6:15 the 3 octaves rule 8:39 The five boxes 10:06 Not using 2 notes per string 11:00 STAGE 2 - The Major Scale 11:59 Why Matteo doesn’t like 3nps 12:45 STAGE 2 JAM 13:37 Benefits of the Major Scale 14:31 Note names vs note functions 15:46 Thirds and Sixths 17:39 Major scale vocabulary 18:57 STAGE 3 - Arpeggios of the scale 20:08 An arpeggio exercise 21:15 STAGE 3 JAM 22:23 Spicing up the arpeggio 22:50 STAGE 4 - Outside chords 24:34 Studying a chord progression 26:44 STAGE 4 JAM 27:36 Melodic Minor 29:28 STAGE 5 - Chromaticism 30:59 The ‘wrong’ notes 32:08 JAM with wrong notes 32:55 Incorporating chromatic notes 33:35 STAGE 5 JAM 35:36 How much does Matteo practice?