Easy solos.
Can anyone recommend some good starter solos to help me get into playing them. I've been playing for three years, but only now I've started to become interested. I like bands like Metallica, System, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd................
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but i think that's probably not the sort of thing you're after
Paranoid by sabbath is quite a good one - i still cant play it yet - but its fairly straightforward i guess..
To this day, I still haven't perfected Mr. Crowley, but I gained more from trying to learn that solo than just about anywhere else.
HTH
Billy
Haha yeah i was gonna recommend this too, nice blusey solo using the pentatonic scale (i think, my other axeman said it was).
The key to playing lead is to posess the ability to improvise. No greater way to learn than the blues. Usually very simple chord changes, but with a solo on top of the changes, Blues becomes one of the most incredible mediums ever for the soloist. Can be very powerful, emotional stuff. I will guarantee you that almost every guitarist out there started learning how to jam playing a simple three chord blues, no matter what they decided to play after the blues.
Try this:
Play your basic 12 bar blues in the key of A. Chords are A, D, and E. Once you get the the 12 bar blues thing down, like a honky tonk or a boogie woogie, then record the changes on the GNX for about a 3 to 4 minute time period.
Then go to this site:
http://www.guitartricks.com/scales1.shtml
and study the basic pentatonic scale. Then play your changes you recorded and play around with the pentatonic scale on top of them. I think you'll be amazed at how well you sound almost instantly. I think you will also be amazed at how many things you hear while jammin on those changes will sound distantly familiar.
See Ya,
Tal
Or even easier... make a loop. play the progression one time through while recording then press play instead of stop. This will loop what you just played and will continue to loop until you stop it.
I do this all the time to practice lead. Choose a nice rhythm sound, pick some drums that work, make a quick loop. Switch to the Guitar to Bass patch press record and lay down a bass line. Then press play again to stop recording the bass line and switch to a killer lead tone then Jam till the cows come home!!!
HTH
KT
I always notice an improvement in my playing, and as some UK band once sang, \"things can only get better\"!!
The solo for Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen) is a really easy one.
The intro solo on Wish You Were Here (PinkFloyd) is pretty straightforward.
Tears in the Rain (Satriani-The Extremist) isn't too hard, and it's a really good exercise.
HTH,
Tod
-Rf.
I just learned the lead parts of Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits!!
What a great song!!
the first solo i tried was \"metallica - nothing else matters\" n the song \"for whom the bells tolls by metallica\" the whole song is easy.
figured em out - its a treat for the fingers once you;ve got em up to speed!
very fast but speed is easy - emotion is the hard part