Soloing Over Chord Changes: How to Start
Transitioning from blowing up and down pentatonic scales to purposely crafting your solos by taking the chord changes into account […]
The Simplest Way to Solo Over Anything (Part 2)
In Part 1 we looked at how to use the major scale patterns to solo over pretty much any kind […]
The Simplest Way to Solo Over Anything (Part 1)
If you’re not one of those guitarists that simply has to learn everything there is to know about absolutely everything […]
Soloing by Numbers: Improve Your Phrasing and Your Alternate Picking
I can’t remember where I saw this but it’s a great exercise for improving your phrasing, as well as getting […]
Soloing Over Changes: How to Be Melodic
The transition from pentatonic soloing to fusion or jazz improvisation can be a depressing time for guitarists as the good […]
How to Approach a Guitar Solo like David Gilmour
I’ve never really been into learning other people’s guitar solos note-for-note, so you won’t find a whole lot of those […]
The Odd Time Cure for Mindless Guitar Soloing
If you’ve been playing for a while you’ve probably gotten your lead playing to the point where you can pretty […]
Soloing Without Scales
If you were to learn how to improvise without using scales, how would you go about it? This the was […]
Guitarists and the Improvisational Mindset
Soloing is one of the main attractions of the guitar, and something that we guitarists spend endless hours trying to […]
12 Quick and Easy Scale Patterns
The top three strings of the guitar in standard tuning (GBE) present a unique set of interval locations that is […]