Soloing
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Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor Sounds
In my opinion, the hallmark of good blues soloing is the ability to seamlessly blend major and minor scales/licks/runs to…
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The Advancing Improviser: Zonal Improvisation on Guitar
Following on the from the lesson on Parallel Thinking, I thought it would be useful to take a deeper look…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…