Crip, I've seen some vids of you playing, I've heard your BM stuff. I think you're capable of doing any of that. Your lead in Dreams on your profile is one of the best I've heard on this site.
I'm starting to practice with my phrasing more than anything these days. I'm not much of a scale runner, and it certainly isn't something that should be done in Reggae. But I think what the premise of this thread is about is piecing together phrasing to scales for a structured and listenable tune. I know a lot of people who know their scales and modes very well, but don't seem to practice much that makes it more interesting than just running up and down those scales.
This is my favorite video on the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDx6dtr2T50
It's kind of short, but for me, became a big inspiration to how I'm going to approach my leads to our upcoming cd. I'm going to try to really make the guitar speak as an accompaniment to these Reggae songs, which isn't very common in Reggae. Generally you hear a lot of delay and wah, some scales, some Reggae leads seem to be on-the-fly noodling. But I'm going to try to give the Reggae world a different approach in hopes of our band kind of separating ourselves from the norm, but in a tasteful way. We'll see how it turns out. We start recording next week.
