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What is a useful exercise for this, and is helpful in many other ways, would be to take some licks or chunks of solo from one shape and figure out and play them in the other shapes. Even if you need to figure them out with a pen and paper first it gets you using and hearing the important tones in the lesser used shapes.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
https://www.musicradar.com/tuition/guitars/50-rock-guitar-licks-you-need-to-know-404838
Very useful! Thanks! Not that that sort of rock-god thing's my style, but great to learn and have under the belt!
*please don't confuse me with someone impressive though
THEN,
Try and play them between 2 positions in the same key
Then try and play them between 2 other positions in same key
You will soon find that linking up the pentatonic (or any other scale boxes )becomes quite fluent and automatic
White Room, for example, I think is mainly based on the 1st and 2nd.
Also you can move around to add dynamics (e.g. 1 and 2 for a bit, than move to 3 and 4 for a bit.)
Again, Clapton is good to work out If you like that kind of thing.
It's probably limiting to see the fretboard in 'boxes' but I do...
Lowest bass note.
Highest note in the lead line.
Where the root note is.
Playing stuff on one string alone helps place those boxes as you ruefully note needing to drop the melody line by an octave to continue playing it (coulda stepped off onto the next string at the fifth fret if I wasn't playing one string) and notice it sounds better to change octave on some notes than others.
Boxes are fun for finding the slickest points to transition from one to the other... I think the trick with improvisation is boxes present convenient patterns but those patterns might not be the patterns we genuinely wanted to play. Practising Improvisation involves not being entertained by the easy alternatives to sound we originally wanted to hear
You'll see most of the classic rock song solos have all the boxes.
I'm doing it now and pretty much have it except I can't do the 'twiddly bit' at record tempo so will adapt that.