Creating Your Own Guitar Solos: From Scale to Solo

Measure 1 - Creating your own guitar solos

Creating your own guitar solos is tons of fun and can become extremely addicting.

For many beginning improvisers though, going from a scale fingering to a full-blown guitar solo seems like a mysterious, confusing and daunting task.

In this article we are going to remove some of this mystery. But before we get started, we need to clear something up…

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What is a Sus 4 Chord and How is it Played on Guitar?

D sus 4 guitar chord fingering diagram

You’ve probably seen the chord symbol D sus 4 in many popular guitar songs. But what does this really mean?

Let’s start by looking at what a chord really is.

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Can Guitar Music Theory Destroy Music for Pleasure?

If you really understand guitar music theory and how to apply music theory to guitar, are you forced to analyze everything you listen to, or can you shut it off whenever you want?

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Busting the Guitar Music Theory Myth: If I Learn Too Much Theory, It Will Cramp My Style and Creativity

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This is one of the biggest myths in music.

Some guitarists use it as an excuse for being lazy, while others genuinely believe that learning guitar music theory will somehow stifle their creativity and destroy their style and originality. It’s time for the truth…

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Guitar Theory: Can it Give You an Extra 2 Free Hours of Guitar Time Each Week?

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If you are like most guitar players, your biggest challenge is finding enough time to play guitar. Everyone is starved for time. There just never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done – even before you grab your guitar!

What if there was a way to improve your guitar playing while you were away from the guitar?

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