in Nolan brewers podcast you said how its important not to think about scales when improvising like how you wouldnt think about letters when speaking and i thought that was a fascinating point, but then i wondered how you would ever improvise if you had no idea about what sets of notes youre going to use, like if the band is playing autumn leaves in F# and you start playing in C theres gonna be a problem. Or maybe you would think of it as playing what sounds good, in which case you could play notes from the F lydian scale if you were playing in D minor, thats how i would think of it, so if you dont think about scales when improvising, what do you think about?
the song, how your day is going, how it feels to be in the room you're in, ..... how you're feeling about the rest of your life .... think about anything you want to think about. turns out you can actually express more through the music than you can by talking about it