I welcome back, you made it. This is week 12 of guitar lessons in the music coach program. This is the end of the program, I want to really congratulate you on following through and getting all the way to the end of the program. I hope you've really enjoyed your time and had gotten a really great start on your musical journey and laid down some great track and got your train really Roman. In this final week, we're going to work on one of my favorite parts of music, which is improvising. improvising or taking a solo is really where your personality gets to shine.
And you get to take all the language that we've used and start to express it in the moment. Very much like how you have a conversation with someone. You don't exactly know what another person is going to say. And a lot of times you don't even know exactly You're going to say, but you use your feelings, and the language that you have inside of you to express your feelings. Now, in this song, everything is based around the G major scale. So your language or your vocabulary comes from that scale.
And because we worked on it in two different ways, one by playing it in first position on different strings, and also going up and down just on the G string, you have a couple of different ways that you can express yourself and try out different things. Now, the biggest challenge with improvising, especially the beginning, is being too self critical, or being worried that you're not sounding good or your ideas aren't good. Do your best to keep your mind calm. And just play from your heart. And remember that you're at a beginning stage with improvising. You're much like when you see a child who's just learning how to speak a language.
Their energy is ready to communicate something but they don't always have all the language yet to really express themselves. So try and be comfortable with that stage of it we all every musician in the world that has ever played is always has come through that stage. So just be patient and really try and work at the actual art of improvising, which you do by doing. There's no real theoretical practice improvising, you just have to do it and express yourself and play. The other things you're going to work on in this week's practice video, are playing the melodies and the chords in different sections. So playing the chord in the first day, and then the melody in the second day, and then playing the chords in the first B and the melody in the second D and then doing that in reverse order.
This is really important skill to be able to have when you're playing with other musicians because depending on the instruments you have, you may want to change up the roles of who's playing what to make your arrangement of the song unique. Just to give you an example, if you have a big full band, and you have drums and bass and guitar and piano and a couple of different horns, you may not as the guitar player needs to play the melody at any point, it may make more sense for you to play chords the whole time. But if it's just guitar, and it might be flute, and maybe a clarinet, you may want to switch it up and play the melody with them, or have one of those instruments playing a company in part and you take a solo. So it's good to feel comfortable switching in and out of those different roles.
Huge congratulations again on getting to the end of the program. Great work and we'll see in the practice video.