Thursday, December 04, 2008

How To Play An Awesome Guitar Solo - What's The Secret?

By Joss Schuyler

Every song you are likely to hear being played today will have some type of guitar solo within it and a few may be a little more memorable than others. If you are just learning how to play this instrument then at some point in the future you are going to want to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo just like your guitar hero. However, what you need to remember that this is something that is going to take time to achieve and don't expect it to happen overnight.

The first thing that you are going to discover when you start to learn how to play the guitar is it takes quite some time to master it. However, once your skills of playing do begin to improve then you should dedicate more of your time to playing it so you can move beyond your current abilities. There are a number of things that you can do which can help you when you want to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo and in this article below we take a look at just some of them.

1. At some point during the playing of a piece your favorite guitarist will start play at a faster speed and if you cannot play the guitar you will be impressed by what they are able to do. For those of you who would like to be able to play a piece of music in the same way as other guitarists then you have to spend time on learning and developing the right legato techniques. It is important therefore you spend time practicing the pentatonic scales along with the 3 note per string scales.

2. Learning the right finger tapping techniques as pioneered by Eddie Van Halen will help to bring the solo guitar pieces you play to a completely new level. As well as learning 2, 4 and 6 finger tapping techniques it is important that you learn the 8 one as well. In fact it is the 8 finger tapping technique which makes guitar playing sound so dramatic and along with playing it on the upper register learn to play it on the middle register and then combine the two together. Along with learning this techniques spend time learning how to tap arpeggios as this will increase the number of notes you can choose to play with.

3. For you to be able to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo you have to learn how to shred and to do this requires you having a metronome. When purchasing this piece of equipment you have the choice of purchasing one that stands on its own from your local music store or from an online one, or you can download metronome software onto your PC instead. As soon as you have the metronome you need to start practicing a particular solo piece of music and increasing the speed as and when you feel comfortable. By the time you are shredding correctly you should be playing the 16th notes at around 200 beats per second.

As you gain more confidence in your shredding not only will you be able to do so up and down the scales quickly, but also you will be able to sweep along the arpeggio and pentatonic scales quickly. Also look for a book or online course which can help you to learn not just about diad's for shredding but also arpeggios.

4. As soon as you feel more confident and comfortable with your guitar playing now is the time to step outside of your comfort zone and begin to experiment when playing a particular piece. If you do find yourself making some mistakes then don't be too concerned about this because they may actually be the right notes you are playing although they may not sound like it initially.

If you wish to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo then when you are attempting to play something new you try those that contain simple melodies. What you may not realize is that just by repeating the same melody a number of times within a solo can help to make it far more memorable to those who are listening to what is being played. - 2361

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