How to Build Solos
guitar beginner
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Finding the Melody
- 🔒 Adding Notes
- 🔒 Adding Scale Licks
- 🔒 Slow
- 🔒 Application
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.
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Gene Sowell
Ben, this one finally made the timing click for me. Been fighting it for a month. Thank you.
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Mick Stanton
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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Ben Clark Instructor
Don't force the pinky stretch. Move your thumb down behind the neck first and the stretch mostly takes care of itself.
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Theresa Nickels
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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Patty Lindstrom
Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.
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Ray Dunphy
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Sharon Kile
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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