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How to Build Solos

beginner guitar

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Step 3 of 5 in Licks ‘n’ Tricks— Guitar

  1. 1 Guitar Harmonics- How and Why?
  2. 2 Potatoes on Guitar
  3. 3 How to Build Solos — you are here
  4. 4 Learning Suspensions Up next
  5. 5 Intro to the G Run
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Everyone wants to know how to build guitar solos on their own, but they think it happens naturally. It doesn't. In this lesson, we're going to identify the basic melody, begin adding notes, then learn how to use the major scale to build scale licks.

Improvisation Key of G Scales Theory technique

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