Phrasing is a concept that can be applied to lead guitar playing and is a very useful thing to start thinking about in the early stages of your journey to becoming a great lead player. Phrasing is a concept based around how notes are played, rather than the specific notes you do choose to play.
Phrasing is something that is quite unique to each individual guitar player. Every single player will hear, and phrase, notes in their own way. This is what gives our favourite players their own unique sounds and feels.
For this lesson, the examples in the video are all using the A Minor Pentatonic scale in the first position, but this concept can apply to any scale in any position or key that you want.
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A great exercise to work on phrasing is to take 4 notes from your scale. In the video you’ll see this demonstrated with the 5th and 7th frets on the D and G strings. Once you’ve picked 4 notes from the scale, pick a backing track in the key that you’re working with.
Over that track, play only those 4 notes. Use techniques like hammer ons, pull offs, bends, slides and vibrato, but only work off 4 fretted notes on the guitar.
By limiting the number of notes you play, it forces you to listen more to HOW you play those notes. Think about the number of different ways you can play just 4 notes by thinking about note length, space and technique.
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Think about leaving gaps in your playing, or trying to play faster licks with less notes. Every aspect of this will tune your musical ear to listen to how you play things.
Sometimes when you look at an entire scale, or a collection of scales, you can sometimes feel overwhelmed with options and not know where to begin. Using this less is more approach is a great way to develop phrasing ideas.
Once you feel comfortable working in a single, 4 note position, you can change key or scale shape. You can even add more notes to your 4 note box. Try adding an extra 2 notes and making it a 6 note box and only working within that.
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This limitation is a great way to start thinking about and listening to what you play and how you play it, and removing the temptation to just run up and down a scale.
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Guitar Lesson 18b: Jazz Up Your Phrasing Ideas And Improvisation
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To explain the concept of guitar phrasing, I’m going to give you an example of what a solo played by a guitar player who doesn’t care about phrasing would look like.
I can’t recall whether my teacher used the term guitar phrasing or not, but what clicked at that moment was that all those sequences I was practicing on my scales were only meant as an exercise.
Now, while practicing, apart from your scales and arpeggios that guide you to what notes you play, you should also be working on phrasing techniques such as bending strings, vibrato, and legato, among others.
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It’s more of a guitar-playing mindset where you are using those techniques to create melodies and, as the name suggests, musical phrases.
When you think in terms of “creating the most beautiful melodic phrases possible” instead of “putting in as many notes as possible, using the right scales” while improvising on guitar, guess what will happen?
If you know the guitar phrasing techniques that you’re going to use in your melodies well, and if you are actually using the right scale, this simple shift in thinking will completely change the quality of your improvisations.
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If you don’t know what scales to use, read this lesson on getting started with improvisation, practice some basic improvisation on one scale, and come back to this lesson.
The next guitar lick is also in the A minor pentatonic. Unlike the guitar lick above (the one without phrasing), it uses very few notes. Four in total: three notes are struck and one is bent up.
However, since the emphasis was on creating a melody, it actually is a melody! And quite a pretty one by my books.
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What we’ll do next is go into some components you can use to make your lead guitar solos sound great by applying guitar phrasing techniques.
While the subject of phrasing goes way beyond the topics discussed here, the following guitar phrasing tips are more than enough to get you started in “
I use the same rhythm in the first three bars (repetition) as well as play around with the same few notes (more repetition) during the whole lick.
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Yet, because of the way those few notes are repeated in a different order and have different guitar phrasing techniques (string bending, vibrato, and legato) applied to them, this melody is way more interesting than the first and actually deserves to be called a melody.
If you can play guitar fast, (click here if you can’t) I’m sure you love playing a lot of short notes like semiquavers and triplets.
However, if you don’t also include long notes in your guitar solos, the only person having fun will be yourself, not anybody who’s listening to you.
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What it means is that you shouldn’t get lost on speed, while ignoring – among other things, guitar phrasing. And for that, you’re probably going to need to use long notes.
If you play this lick very fast, it’s the triplet notes that allow you to show off how fast you can play, but it’s the crotchets and minims in bars 2 and 4 that make it sound like a real melody and not just an exercise in showing off your speed on guitar.
Guitar phrasing is about how notes are played and string bending allows us guitar players to play the notes in a way a singer can, but a pianist can’t.
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When you play two notes following each other on a piano or a guitar (unless you apply string bending) in a melody, as soon as the first note stops being heard, you start hearing the next one.
After the note C is heard for two beats you pick the note D, and in that instant, the note changes from C to D.
If I bend, the note C to the note D though, as soon as I start bending the note C, I’m gradually increasing the pitch to the note D, to the extent that there is no noticeable point where it stops being a C and becomes a D.
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This is the way it would be notated, if a composer meant a bent C to D, instead of having them played after each other.
An interesting aspect of guitar phrasing is to play the same things in a different way, and string bending is one technique that makes this possible.
For instance, in the example above, I can play note C and bend it to note D until I reach the second beat. Or bend it more slowly so that it reaches the D by the third beat, or by the fourth.
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The possibility to vary the speed of the bend gives you a huge amount of different ways you can play a note bent to another.
Another possibility is to delay your bend. That would be, in this case, holding the C for a beat, less, or more, then bending it to the D.
The same thing applies to vibrato technique. By altering how wide and how
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