BluesRock Soloing

f, nimportantpartofbeingaguitarplayeristohavesomegreat ifyouspendthetimelearningthemandputtingthemintoyourplaying, solosideas you pull you Lick 1 pentatonic is chord tone !l that can out at any time need to. lt is a is minor with the added C#,which a ! lcommon occurrencethat unexpectedlysomeone in the bandwill from A7. turn to you and say,"Guitarsolo'lWhat will you do if that happensto you? Lick2 is from the major pentatonicscale, but has a chromaticentry Maybeit alreadyhas, so how did you respond?Pull out your favourite from the note belowthe F#,which is alsoa chordtone. pentatonicscaleandplayupanddownit?Wellthatwillworl!butsounds Lick 3 is a common country soundinglick made up mainlyof a very boring and amateurish.lt'swise to havesome pre-planned licks that chromaticscale. you canuse immediately-a lickapproach is muchbetterthan a scale Lick4iswhatisknownasaturnaroundlick.Youcanpickthislickwitha approachfor playingsolos. hybridstyle if you want - that is pickwith the lower notesand fingertips for the higher notes. The brackets with the numbers 1 and 2 in them are called 1st and 2nd endings, which mean that you playthe l st ertdingthe firsttime throughand on the second time through skip the first endingand jump over to the 2nd ending. Learn these one by one so you have Lick 3 them well known - memorised is even better. Then we put them together to make a solo. After a while you will be able to mix them up with some of the licks you alreadyknow to make up longersolos. Having these four simple little licks in your bag of solo tricks will serveyou well into the future. lt is a great ideato learnthose licks you canget by earfrom your favourite players and keepadding them to your repertoire. A word of warning though.Wetend to play rhythm guitar parts around950lo of the time and solos only 5o/oof Froma theoreticalpoint of view many guitaristsargue that solosare the time.Don't neglect your rhythmguitar practice, there is a realshortage madeup of scales.Wellthey areto a point right,but manyof the lickshere of reallygreat rhythm guitar players. haveother tones in them that are not in a pentatonicscale, like chord "lf you don't know the blues,then there is no point in pickingup your tones,chromatics, etc, included within the lick.Two important things guitar,playing rock and roll or any other form of music."- KeithRichards happenwhen you havea good commandof somegreat licksyou enjoy To hearthis solo,visitmy websiteat http://www.guita(.co.nz/category/ playing- the first isyou soundmore professional,and secondis you don't resources/freelessons/ haveto know any complicatedtheory or scales,you only need to know what chordthat particularlick goes over. KevinDowning is a professionalguitarist, teacher, and author basedin lf you lookat the diagramyou cansee there are four lick for our 12-bar PalmerstonNorth. He can be contactedat [email protected] phone (06) bluesrock solo.Theend of each lick I havesectioned off with a bracket, 357 0057.www.guitar.co.nz Thesetypes of licl

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