At the risk of sound like I am flaming you, Gargoyle--there are simple to understand and precise musical terms for what you are asking people to do here, and, because you are not using them, what you are telling people to do is more confusing than it need to be--

Rather than helping clarify, you are making this stuff scary by making it unnecessarily confusing--

Another point, and that is that you are not explaining anything about improvisation--you are just explaining how to go about playing a few "fills"--

I have studied 'music theory" for a long time, and I can play and write in a lot of different styles and genres, because I have taken the time to learn how things are put together--I am sure of one thing--music theory is not that simple or easy to understand--it takes work, and it takes time--The biggest problem that people trying to learn theory have is that they try to deal with way too much at a a time when they are teaching themselves--

It helps to have a good teacher(and that means a teacher who is a both good composer and a good explainer) it hurts to have a teacher who doesn't really quite know as much as they think they do, or one who oversimplifies--

For everyone who has been following this thread and got comfused, don't feel bad, there was a lot of stuff here, more than anyone can really process at once--to make matters worse, some of it was explained well, but some was not, and the only ones who can tell which was which are the ones who understand it already--