Melodic improvisation concepts

Melodic improvisation concepts.
Just gave a private class to a student of mine. He was struggling with being melodic while keeping the overall sound of the harmony when improvising on a more pop music context. I gave him a simple exercise of using more the triad notes on the major chords and using more the scales to glue things together, like the minor pentatonic as an example and try to use it more in the minor chords of the harmony. This was the example I gave him to practice over.
PRS Single Cut with Bareknuckle pickups direct into the amazing Fender 64 Custom Hand Wired Deluxe Reverb. In front of the amp I was using the Dude and Boing from J. Rockett Audio Designs, the SP compressor and EP booster from Xotic effects and Replica from T. Rex engineering.
This is not a proper sound recorded video as the audio was recorded only with my iPhone 13 Pro Max and no correction mix was done. Still, I wanted to share it here on youtube, sorry folks...
I recommend watching in HD on proper speakers or good headphones.
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