[NaturalBlack]

Originally Posted by Flip_

Studying soloing, be it any instrument. Soloing is just playing complimentary melodies over existing ones. It will train your brain to hear the music in that way, and by learning to play other ppls solos, you'll learn which scales, grooves, etc work over which types of melodies and stuff. Eventually it will become 2nd nature, you'll hear a melody and know exactly what to play over it.

Expand you're listening material too. There's not a lot of harmony or soloing going on in hip hop beats, compared to like jazz, r&b, classic rock, funk, etc. You're better off studying that kind of music as there's more examples to learn from, and more multi-melody/harmony stuff going on.

very good advice. Trying to learn to solo on the guitar and watching videos of jazz greats talk about improvisation have helped me a lot.