Thursday, December 4, 2008

Want To Know How To Play An Awesome Guitar Solo?

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.

What you will soon discover is that it may many years before you can master the guitar and so play it well. However, after you have more ability in your playing then you need to dedicate even more time to playing it to go beyond your limits. But there are a number of things that you can do which will aid you in getting to the stage where you have found that you have learnt how to play an awesome guitar solo well, and we look at what these are below.

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. It is crucial if you want to be able to play an awesome guitar solo you learn the finger tapping techniques that were pioneered by Eddie Van Halen. If you can learn to play 2, 4, 6 and 8 finger tapping techniques then this will bring your guitar playing to a whole new level. Also through learning 8 finger tapping the piece you play will sound more dramatic. But you need to learn to pay these techniques both on the upper and middle registers and this offers you the chance to combine them with each other. Another thing you need to do is learn to tap arpeggios as again this will give you more notes to incorporate into the piece that you are playing.

3. If you want to be able to play an awesome guitar solo then you need to learn how to shred and in order to do this you will need to get yourself a metronome. This piece of musical equipment can either be brought through your local music store or online one. The other option is to actually download metronome software directly onto your PC. Once you have the metronome then as you practice a particular solo piece of music you need to use the metronome to increase the speed at which you are playing. To shred properly you need to play the 16th notes at around 200 beats a second.

As you gain more confidence in your shredding not only will you be able to do so up and down the scales quickly, but also you will be able to sweep along the arpeggio and pentatonic scales quickly. Also look for a book or online course which can help you to learn not just about diad's for shredding but also arpeggios.

4. You need to start learning to move out of your comfort zone if you wish to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo well. Therefore when you feel comfortable and ready to start experimenting with what you are playing and don't be overly concerned if you find yourself hitting some bum notes as they may actually be right.

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. - 16747

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