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Where To Start?? [Soloing]

  • 06-01-2007 4:35pm
    #1
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Ok, I really want to start solo but cant seem to get around it. I can do a few solo's like, nothing more than the pentatonic scale really..

    Really I just dont know where to start and I know the pentatonic scale and all the notes along the board just dont know how to tie them in to riffs I have :( anyhelp????:(


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  • #2
    Rustar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Rustar


    Not sure where you are in terms of scale learning, but it sounds like mode study might be a help. Modes can allow you to play any pentatonic, major, or minor scale anywhere on the neck seamlessly.

    Google up 'scale modes' and 'mode theory' and poke around, there are tons of free lessons. Other than that, I'd just traipse down to the music store and pick up a tab book w/CD of my favorite guitar artist, and see what makes him tick.
    There are also plenty of tab/CD books specifically on guitar soloing, ask your salesman.

    Another option is the "Band In A Box"-type CDs, where they provide a backing track and you are the soloist. Just play along in key and eventually something meaningful will come out. These are fun, I have blues and rock CDs of this type.


  • #3
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    get some theory behind ya, chords and chord consturctions alopne with scales and scale construction, and the relationship between notes within a given key... it take sa while

    BUt my no.1 rule is to learn the ntoes on the fretboard, that way its a lot easier to apply all this wonderfull theory u learn


  • #4
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Basically, you just need a bit of theory. It will let you look at the notes in your riffs/chord progressions and suggest suitable scales for soloing.

    Theres tonnes of books out there, i can recommend Guthrie Govans 1st book, it approaches music theory in a very simple way, and will also help you expand past the pentatonic into other scales/modes.


  • #5
    jcoote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭jcoote


    i found this very helpful.

    if u can learn all those shapes without looking thats a good start imho.

    look at modes after that as the lads said

    also try some techniques that u can just add onto what u know already. eg legato,hammer ons and pull offs etc.

    cyberfret.com covers a lot of ground


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