Melodic Soloing
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Soloing Over Chord Changes Like a Sax Player
It’s no secret that your average saxophone player is light-years ahead of your average guitarist when it comes to improvisation;…
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Blues Soloing Tricks: What to Do with the 4
This lesson follows on from the approach we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor…
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Blues Soloing Tricks: The Blue Note
The blues note is of course the b5, and if you’ve been following this series of blog posts, you’ll find…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Soloing Without Scales
If you were to learn how to improvise without using scales, how would you go about it? This the was…
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How to Create Melodic Guitar Solos
Traditional methods of learning scales such as the (crappy) CAGED System and the 3NPS System don’t really lead to melodic…
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6 Soloing Problems Solved
A lot of intermediate guitarists arrive at the point where their soloing either sounds uninspired or relies too heavily on…