In this lead guitar lesson, we'll be learning how to play a solo on the guitar. A lot of guitarists think that playing a solo is such a long way away, and it can seem like an impossible mountain to climb. In this lesson, we'll be going over just a few basic techniques and learning a simple solo so you can start playing along to music right away. It doesn't matter if you have an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar, all the points covered in this lesson will apply to you.
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Before we get into learning the solo, we need to cover a few essential techniques. The first of these is picking technique. Start off by grabbing your pick between your thumb and your index finger. There are a few different positions you can use, so make adjustments and find what is most comfortable for you. Make sure you relax your hand. Gripping the pick too hard can result in injury, and also make it harder to pick multiple notes smoothly. Lastly, you'll want to focus on making small motions when you pick. The smaller the motion, the less distance the pick will have to travel to get to the next note. Also, smaller motions are easier to do for an extended period of time, so it's a good habit to get into early.
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The other important technique to cover is fretting technique. Start by holding your hand up as if you were holding a baseball. Take the shape your hand is making and grab the neck of your guitar. Place your thumb on the back of the neck and bring your fingers down onto the fretboard. Again, stay relaxed and don't grip anything too tightly. You'll want to make sure when you come down on the frets that you are right behind them and pushing just hard enough so that the notes come through clearly.
Now that we've got the techniques down, we'll jump into learning this solo. For this solo, we'll be using the blues scale. If you don't already know the blues scale that's perfectly okay. You don't need to learn it to play the solo here.
The first thing we'll do is pull up the jam track and practice counting along to it. Get used to where the beat is and how to find the rhythm. Since we're only using half notes and whole notes in this lesson you'll only need to be able to count 1, 2, 3, 4 along to the track.
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The chord progression that we'll be playing over is just a standard 12 bar blues progression. You don't need to worry too much about what those chords exactly are at this point. The focus of this section will just be imitating what's played in the video and following along with the tab.
Spend some time working on being able to play this solo without the jam track to start. Once you feel like you've got the hang of it, you can play it along with the jam track. Be sure to listen to the example in the video as well so you know it sounds right.Sure, rhythm is absolutely the most important part of guitar playing, and if you want to start a band and write songs you need to brush up on your power chords and strumming technique.
But then again, is there anything more fun than playing a solo? The History of rock guitar is made of those epic 30 or 40-second moments that allow our favorite instrument to take centre stage and voice its take on the song.
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As a beginner, you could be forgiven for being wary of getting into solos. They are considered to be more technically demanding than rhythm parts (even if that point could be debated) and seem like a lot of work. But some solos are easier to play, mostly because they are not as fast and filled with notes as they could be, and just because they are on the easier side doesn’t make them any less fun.
In order to work out a solo, start out by listening to it a few times in order to really grasp its musical flow and understand where it’s coming from. Then learn the rhythm part if you really want to understand how the solo articulates. And then get into the solo per se. There are many guitar lessons available on the Play Guitar Hits app, and many of them will take you through easy lead guitar parts and show you exactly how it’s done.
Don’t go too fast: just because you can play a lick or a phrase doesn’t mean you can play the solo. Start off with the first musical phrase, play it slowly and, once it’s clean, speed up until you reach the actual speed. Then do the same with the second phrase, and play the two phrases with the playback. And so on. Playing a solo means you have the whole thing memorized, which takes time and patience, but it is the best way of getting better at playing solos, since it will teach you how to build a solo but also you will learn licks that you can use in your own songs.
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Without further ado, here are ten legendary solos that you can play as a beginner with just a little work. They are all available on Play Guitar Hits where you will find the tabs and videos that you can slow down to really get the details right.
Very few guitarists can actually manage to pull so much emotional content out of so few notes. Kurt Cobain was a great player who could tell a story with only a few words.
This solo is basically the vocal melody played on the guitar, which is always a great trick if you don’t know where to take your lead part. Slides abound, and there’s also a bend of two strings at the same time, but Cobain’s style is sloppy enough that you don’t have to worry so much about the pitch of your bends.
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Soundwise, distortion is a must, and a chorus pedal will help you get closer to the aquatic sound of the original recording.
This late eighties indie anthem starts off with an iconic guitar melody that might not be a solo per se, but uses techniques from the solo bag and it is just so fun to play that you wouldn’t want to miss out on a technicality!
Guitarist Joey Santiago plays the lick on his Les Paul with a medium overdrive and takes advantage of the dissonance brought by playing the open string of high E alongside the Eb on the fourth fret of the B string. This song actually uses the E major scale rather than the usual minor pentatonic.
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Hey, another solo on the major scale! This one is in C major, and it’s just as anthemic as the song it is part of. Noel Gallagher plays this scorcher on a crunchy Epiphone Sheraton but on the Play Guitar Hits you will find a quieter arrangement for acoustic guitar. It does not stray too far away from the original and you get to work on double stops (playing lead guitar on two strings at once), a classic move that Chuck Berry pioneered.
Speaking of Chuck Berry, here is a blues scorcher that makes good use of Berry’s classic lick that alternates between a bend on the G string and double stops on the B and high E strings.
Although Steve Cropper only plays rhythm guitar on the original recording, you will find a very cool bluesy solo on the Play Guitar Hits that will fit nicely with the E minor pentatonic vamp that the whole song is built around. A few notes have been taken from E major, the rest is pure minor pentatonic blues going from the first position to the octave using a few notes in between. Great licks abound, including a killer one with a bend of the G string along with a non-bended note on the B.
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This evergreen nineties classic rides the fine line between an instrumental theme and a solo. That guitar part is such an integral part of the song that it’s impossible to imagine “Zombie” without it, which is the ultimate proof of a well-crafted solo.
Interestingly enough, even though Noel Hogan is the main guitarist of the band, singer and main songwriter Dolores O’ Riordan is the one who plays that solo on her distorted Gibson ES-335. Use a standard overdrive pedal, turn up the gain and add a little reverb to help the notes blend into each other.
The solo is built around the E minor pentatonic scale, and the main difficulty comes from the slides from one note to the next. You start off sliding one note at a time, and then add another string to the
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