Saturday, December 6, 2008

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

By Joss Schuyler

Every song you hear do will have some kind of guitar solo in it some a little more awesome than others. For anyone who is just beginning to learn how to play this instrument will at some stage like to know how to play an awesome guitar solo as their favorite guitarist does. But what they need to remember is that this is something that they won't be able to excel at 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 stage of your the piece being played by your favorite guitarist they will begin to play it at a very high speed and anyone who is unable to play a guitar is often impressed by this. If you would like to be able to play an awesome guitar solo like your guitar hero then you need to dedicate time to learning and developing the correct legato techniques. For you to do this you need to dedicate time to learning and practicing the 3 note per string scales as well as the pentatonic 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.

Over time your confidence will grow and you soon find that you are able to shred moving up and down the scales very quickly and can also sweep the pentatonic and arpeggios fast as well. It is a good idea to find a book or online course that can provide you with assistance in learning about diad's and 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 want to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo then it is best if you stick to those that come with simple melodies when learning how to play a particular piece of music. You may not have realized this but it is often these simple melodies which are played on and off in a piece of music that prove to be more memorable to those who are listening to it. - 15478

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