In my 20+ years of teaching guitarists of all levels, I’ve consistently found that most guitarists make learning new songs and guitar solos way harder than it needs to be. This of course means it takes most guitar players way too long to learn songs.
In this tutorial, we look at an accelerated learning technique for learning guitar solos faster.
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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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You’ve heard that you should learn to play guitar scales, but let’s be honest…you would rather play your favourite guitar songs instead of playing boring old guitar scales.
So is it really worth investing some of your limited practice time into learning and mastering guitar scales?
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Making the transition from soloing with pentatonic scales to major and minor scales can be tricky. Today we will look at an easy first step to adding major and minor scales into your soloing.
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It’s quite common for guitar players to get stuck in a pentatonic rut. All your guitar solos start to sound the same. The good news is there are many ways to break out of this pentatonic rut. We look at one here…
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It’s time to take the Circle of Guitar Influence much further. In the first part of this exercise we looked at tracing your favourite guitar player’s influences back one generation. Now we will go much deeper with this exercise and gain some additional tools for song writing.
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