Intermediate guitar lessons

Hey everyone! So today, I wanted to share with you all some intermediate guitar lessons  so that you can continue to grow in your musicianship. 

Let’s get started

Soloing

So these soloing techniques that I’m about to show you apply to all types of solos. 

Whether that’s a Trumpet solo, or a guitar solo or a piano solo all of these types of solos require the same thing.

And it’s a little different from improvising 

Improvisation is the act of creating a guitar solo all right on the spot. 

It’s the act of basically freestyling on the guitar. 

And even though, they are very similar in the sense that you’re making a solo, to make a solo requires one thing in specific that is very different from improvising. 

And that is to write down the solo.

Writing down the solo

So, when you’re at home and you’re practicing making solos, it’s important that you get into the habit of writing your solos down. 

All too common, guitarists will take a well composed solo and just forget about how to actually play it. 

And what happens is that sometimes guitar solos are actually very memorable and we want to be able to repeat those guitar solos over and over again by different guitarists. 

So, it’s important that we find a way to annotate the guitar solos because that’s just the life of the guitarist. 

And here are some tips on how to make the solo

Three theories on how to make a solo

1. Start from the top and end at the bottom
2. Start from the bottom and end at the top
3. Start from the Top go to the bottom and end at the top

So what happens is that with the vast array of possibilities that you could do to make a solo, it’s important that you have a general direction as to how to make a solo. 

One way could be from starting from the top and ending at the bottom. 

That literally means that you go from high notes all the way to low notes. 

Another way that you could do it is to start from low and slow and end up high and mighty. 

And the last way is to take your audience on a journey and that is to start with high notes travel across the fretboard to the low notes and then end up at high again because that just sounds good. 

Those are three directions that are very popular in soloing. 

But what notes do I play?

This is a great question. 

Usually the notes that you play will be diatonic to the key that you’re in. 

But it doesn’t have to be. 

Whenever you play a blue note, usually that note is not diatonic within the key. 

A good way to start is by learning the pentatonic scale and just choosing the notes that are within that scale. 

So say for example if you’re in the key of A major, then just use the notes in the key of A major pentatonic. 

If you’re in the key of G minor, use G minor Pentatonic scale. 

It takes a little practice doing it but you’ll get used to it. 

And just use the directions that I said above in order to craft a really good guitar solo. 

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