Thursday, December 11, 2008

5 Tips That May Help You To Master Easy Lead Guitar Solos

By Joss Schuyler

Although you may have only been learning how to play the guitar for a relatively short period you are looking now for some easy lead guitar solos to learn. The internet is a great place to find lessons that will show you how to play such solos and which will with plenty of practice help to improve your playing technique.

However, before you actually start learning how to play one of these easy lead guitar solos there are a number of things you need to take into consideration first. Many people when they first begin learning how to play the guitar, especially lead will attempt solos written by groups such as Nirvana and Guns N' Roses. In this article we offer some tips which you may find useful when you attempt for the first time to play any kind of lead guitar solos.

Tip 1 - You should never in the beginning attempt to create random notes. Yes guitarists such as Santana use random notes when they play but the sound they produce isn't solely down to this. For you it is best when you first start learning how to play any lead guitar solo is to incorporate random notes within it. Rather you should spend time creating your own template which you can then use for improvising.

Tip 2 - Make sure that you have a blues scale to hand although this doesn't actually refer to the music of this name. It may well have the same random feeling as you would get from playing blues music this scale is not purely designed for using with this kind of music. For anyone who is wishing to learn how to play any lead guitars solo then this is the template that they should be using.

Tip 3 - Whether you learning difficult or easy lead guitar solos you should make sure that you regular practice alternate picking on your guitar. The way in which you pick your guitar is going to influence the kind of music which you produce. In many cases the lead guitar solos you play will include some improvisation in them so knowing the various ways of picking a guitar can prove very beneficial to your playing. Also practising this technique will help you to better determine if the sound you are producing when playing the guitar is good or bad.

Tip 4 - Every time you play your guitar you need to make sure that every note played is clear and even. Even at this stage of learning a guitar solo you need to make sure that at no time have you allowed yourself to create any random notes within it. Also you need to spend time working on the scales and how they should be played in the different ways, not just forwards but backwards as well. Also each time you are playing a note in a guitar solo that you are just learning, play each one twice before you then move on to the next one.

Tip 5 - To help you with memorizing the different scales that you will need to play for any particular lead guitar solo you should make a list of the notes to be played. This will be of benefit to you when you are playing a particular piece of music for the first time as you will be able to refer back to this list so you know exactly where the improvised chords you intend to play in the piece should be.

In this article we have given you five tips that you may find useful when you are looking to learn one of the many easy lead guitar solos that you find online. However, if you really want to improve the way that you play the lead guitar this can only be done through you practising a lot. - 2361

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