The reason why musicality is deep and difficult to quantify besides the 'emotion'

is this fact.
..Every note can be followed by 12 possibilities and this is unique and not
completely true.
There are 13 options if one were to count silence as a note.
The placement of silence will outline a rhythmic character.
The longer you are silent makes each of the 12 audible tones even more precious
when they are used.
To quantify the length of sustain of any note makes the variables 14.
To play microtones makes this number infinite.
So get this...besides 'emotion' we have shit loads to worry about.
This makes the endeavor to play music all that more difficult.
The next time you ask me how to play musically,understand that the variables have
to be manipulated by you and not me.

A few tricks is all a mortal like me can give you.

Tip 1

On the subject of knowing scales in all positions.

Imagine this.

If we stayed in the same place and played all the major scales or pentatonics
(minor) in all 12 keys this would mean super smooth transitions and a really fluid
sound.

For inter
vallic stuff you could flap all about the fretboard confusing listeners into
believing you were playing sensibly i.e lot of scope to faff (I'm a master at
this :)).

But on a serious note do try to play in one position, all the changes in one
position and you will understand the word fluid.

Intervallic chaos is not fluid its called floyd.

Here is a master of the fretboard Kurt Rosenwinkel taking you through the minor7
changes in whole steps i.e. Fm7,Gm7,Am7...etc.

while playing in the lower reaches of the fretboard only once darting to the 9th
fret on the high E string. So most of the notes are played in the region from the
1st to the 6th fret.

The mode of transport through these changes are the minor pentatonic shape.

If you moved this entire exercise a half step up you would learn the other 6
changes namely F#m7,Abm7,Bbm7..etc.Happy noodling :)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5qJqMU7g1nHN3ZkazlPQ2pEUzA

Tip 2
Small trick.Let us assume you know a song which has 3 Major chords and another one
which has 3 Minor chords.

When you start the tune it moves in a 'major' sort of way and the second one will
decidedly be 'minor' sounding.

You know when you do ear training and start using inversions initially you will be
quite thrown with these sounds,though they are major or minor.

Here's what you can do...

Sing your major or minor song over whatever inversion and you will immediately know
what inversion it is.Its like remembering a familiar turn from your childhood to
learn left and right.

Try this its really cool :)

A chord's inversion describes the relationship of its bass to the other tones in
the chord. For instance, a C major triad contains the tones C, E and G; its
inversion is determined by which of these tones is used as the bottom note in the
chord....

Tip 3

In keeping with understanding the fretboard and juicing every bit of the pentatonic
scales,its very important that you learn them in all positions all over the
fretboard and learn how they work over different chords.
Also when you play a scale with 3 notes per string try leaving out the note in
between the two extreme notes on a string giving you a wider intervallic sound.

This will change the way you perceive the scale and change the way you sound using
the scales you are familiar with.

The great teacher Don Mock had compiled a white paper on pentatonics and its here
for your perusal.Any scale must be understood and its application maximized to
truly progress,this is true with anything.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5qJqMU7g1nHMVZWUHVVMXZiWW8/edit

Tip 4

Playing over the blues one can have a lot of choices besides just the pentatonic
scale. To sound' jazzy' a common device used is to use a melodic minor up a 5th.e.g
over G7th you can use D melodic minor.

This enables you to take your blues vocabulary into different territory and explore
a new space.

It's definitely one of those sounds you have heard and liked but are not able to
figure what 'it' was.

The spelling of a melodic minor scale is 1,2,b3,4,5,6,7.

So it's a major scale with just the 3rd flattened.:)

Here is a ready reckoner for common scales in use.

It will be nice to take each one and plot them to pilfer chords.

I do this to any new sounds.

Chords in addition to really cool string skip shapes.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5qJqMU7g1nHX2c1RUM1RE9oUFk

tip 5

based on the chart of the Cmajor,and vibrato and the old devil in me,I played just
some simple rock sounds to demonstrate that this is not 'jazz','pop','blues' info
its just an easy guideline.Simple rock licks out of the D minor pentatonic and the
C major scale is all I used.Feel free put your ideas down and record it on a
phone,listen to them and improve on your own.

Tip 6

The basis of diatonic harmony ( harmony derived from the major scale) can be very
easily understood by plotting the C Major (easiest to understand because there are
no sharps and flats) scale all over the 12 fret x 6 string grid.

As you proceed to play the tones along each string you will just notice that they
are just linear displacements of the other strings based on the tuning of a guitar.

So at any point along a fret you will get some cool combinations of notes in the
scale.

The chords derived from this scale are:

1Maj,2Min,3Min,4Maj,5Dominant,6 Min,7 Half dim.

CMaj,Dmin,Emin,FMaj,GDominant,A Min,B Half dim.

The spelling of a fundamental Major7th chord is (1,3,5,7),Min7 (1,b3,5,b7),Dom

(1,3,5,b7),Half Dim( 1,b3,b5,b7).

The exercise is to circle these groups on the grid and you will have all inversions
of all these principal chords without any fancy alterations. This is the basis of
the harmony implied in the major scale.You will find crazy large intervals that you
can use, and close intervals as well.Circle away and study this circled chart
focusing on each chord in the family.e.g. Study the Dm7 in all its forms on one day
etc.
Gradually the logic that lies within the scale will be very understandable. By
taking again diads,triads and chords for each component you can easily learn this
very important concept. No need to break your head over a book that kills you with
rhetoric and repetition. Yes advanced concepts can be broken down much easily once
the fundamental building blocks are down.
Please plot and verify and totally enjoy :)