| Learning how to play guitar solos is the most | | | | week and listen to yourself and see how much you |
| exhilarating part of playing for me. I began learning | | | | have improved. |
| guitar at the age of fifteen. There is nothing more | | | | There are many different techniques to guitar |
| exiting than buying your first guitar and getting it | | | | soloing, picking, hammer on and pull offs, Tremolo |
| home from the shop, then trying to play a guitar solo | | | | bar, guitar shredding. All these techniques produce a |
| of your favourite song. Guitar soloing is very | | | | different type of sound from the guitar. Hammer on |
| different for everybody, people have individual tastes | | | | and pull offs is how it sounds, you use your chords |
| but tastes aside the basics must be learnt to | | | | fingers to hammer on the string and a pull off is to |
| become a proficient lead guitarist. | | | | remove you finger from the string while plucking the |
| Guitar soloing is as simple as plays a series of licks. A | | | | string as removing it. The tremolo bar changes the |
| lick is a series of note played in progression that | | | | pitch of the note or chord which can be used in |
| sound good. For a guitar soloist, scales will be their | | | | conjunction with the hammer on and pull offs. Guitar |
| best friend. Scales can be fun. Don't think of them as | | | | shredding is playing a passage of notes very fast, |
| boring. Learning scales is the key to becoming a great | | | | which is usually sweep-picked arpeggios, diminished |
| guitar soloist. One of the first and easiest scales to | | | | and harmonic minor scales. |
| learn is the minor Pentatonic scale, it has only five | | | | There are many aspects on how to play guitar solos |
| notes. This scale can be used with many different | | | | i have only written on a basic overview. There are |
| types of music genre. The blues scale is another | | | | many learning course and videos you can buy online |
| easy scale to learn. I would recommend to record | | | | now, just do your research and choose one that |
| yourself while playing your scales then practice all | | | | suits yourself. |