Record Your Guitar Playing! A Great Practice Tool.

In this video I talk about a technique that I often use to help improve my playing and gauge progress. Recording you playing is for everyone from beginners to pros.
Especially handy for beginners, recording your playing will allow you to pay full attention to how your playing sounds and what you like and don't like about it.
That way you know what you sound like and where you need to improve.
So be your biggest critic and record your playing with your smart phone, tablet, iPod or mp3 player and listen back to it!
Here is the link to the track I improvised over:
Thankyou to QuistJam for this track.

[dalepal]

That’s a good tip. I’ll try to record myself more.

[MikeGgeetar]

It's hard with those backing tracks, but primarily you need to create a piece of music to develop. The chord progression provides you with that to an extent BUT you need to emphasize a theme or motif to build on. If not there is a lack of focus and the music sounds jaded after a while.

Greater use of dynamics is a good way to build tension, I'm not averse to going from a clean jazzy line to a blstering overdriven run intermingled with feedback and squealing harmonics, and back to something mellow. Try and tell a story.

Try this too, if you start off with say, Aminor pentatonic as the basis of your solo, move to the A minor natural, then throw in some A minor blues and then A minor harmonic, you'll more than likely find yourself favouring one scale but the new flavours in the other scales will be refreshing.

[CJ-rfjm]

Your playings better than mine so I didn't spot any mistakes. Did notice couple things, 1 you're only using 3 fingers to fret. Past few months I been trying to use 4 a lot more but always have a hard time since cant stretch enough at times to reach notes farther apart. Another thing is I saw at a few points your fretting hand zoomed up n down the fretboard without actually going for any notes there. Is that intentional? seems like something unneeded.