I'm a country guitar picker and i bought Lee Hodgsons book hot country to learn some new stuff. It's a really great book that I recommend to anyone wanting to learn country guitar. But there's one thing I wonder. When you work out or improvise a solo; don't you think in positions and what the tones sound like? I mean, Lee says that when he plays a solo he thinks like: hmm... a lick over chord I and V7...go for a bend from the b3 to 3...little bluesy here...
When I improvise I think of positions (ascociated with chord shapes)and I LISTEN to what the licks sound like. I don't just think in numbers. What and how do you out there think? Don't you lose the creativity and feeling when you just think of numbers..like a computer?
/Wide
