Easy solos.

Mikalee · October 2005

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................

archon · October 2005

\"what do i get\" by the BUzzcocks 8)

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..

bbreland · October 2005

I would say pick one that really \"gets\" you and go for it. You may not be able to play it at full speed or all the way through, but you will learn ALOT.

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

aRcTuRuS · October 2005

\archon\ wrote:

Paranoid by sabbath is quite a good one - i still cant play it yet - but its fairly straightforward i guess..

Haha yeah i was gonna recommend this too, nice blusey solo using the pentatonic scale (i think, my other axeman said it was).

Tal Rules · October 2005

Try this Mika,

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

KiLLiN-TiMe · October 2005

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.

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

Mikalee · October 2005

Cheers guys!! I'll give it a try.

I always notice an improvement in my playing, and as some UK band once sang, \"things can only get better\"!!

AtomicNinjaRobot · October 2005

\Mikalee\ wrote:

as some UK band once sang, \"things can only get better\"!!

You mean Howard Jones?

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

Mikalee · October 2005

I was thinking more of the one by Take That, but yours is a bit cooler!!

rawfish · October 2005

Beatles \"Back in the USSR\" lead break is really easy if you're into the music us old folks listen to.

-Rf.

Mikalee · October 2005

I'm not a big fan of the beatles.

I just learned the lead parts of Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits!!

What a great song!!

jer · October 2005

Judas Priest's \"Living After Midnight\" is an easy one. That was my first.

Melkilockhart · October 2005

i think \"Scorpions - send me an angel\" sounds cool and its too easy, but u can try \"Stratovarius - Hunting High\" and Low or \"Pearl Jam - Do the Revolution\"

Melkilockhart · October 2005

\jer\ wrote:

Judas Priest's \"Living After Midnight\" is an easy one. That was my first.

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.

thehootman · October 2005

I like the twin solos of Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden, and the solos (intro and later part) to One by Metallica
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

Mr Mojo Risin · October 2005

Black Magic Woman by Santana. Im not a fan of Santana but you can learn alot from them. This song might seem a little hard to play at first but its really not. You can learn it pretty fast and it will help you improve your string bending skills. Also Layla by Derek and the Dominoes is a good song to learn. Its an electric guitar version of Eric Claptons song.

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