Art of Noodling

The Art of Noodling reflects Rolly Brown's ongoing campaign to offer user-friendly material which helps guitarists obtain more freedom on their instruments. In this case, "Noodling" refers to the ability to just pick up your guitar and make the music you hear in your head, whether it's a country blues, a folk song, or a free improvisation. The pathway is a series of specific exercises which can be learned and memorized, but which, one hopes, will also be used as templates or models which can lead you to interesting musical explorations. Rolly deals with various concepts about melodic noodling and chordal noodling, covered at 3 different levels of difficulty, offering a basic place to start, as well as material to revisit over time, as you advance. Detailed tab/music PDF file is included on the DVD.

Topics include: Playing from the heart: Emotional content

C major scale and E blues scale up the neck;  If you know C major, you know A minor

Figuring melodies by ear

Higher quality noodling via pattern recognition

Noodling with basic chords

Flatpicking and Fingerstyle noodling

Sweep picking and arpeggios; Expanding your basic chord repertoire;

Moving chords up the neck

Composing a line and integrating it in your noodling

Practice ideas for arpeggios

Running Time  114 minutes

DVD is region 0, playable worldwide