Monday, December 1, 2008

Want To Know How To Play An Awesome Guitar Solo?

By Joss Schuyler

Many of the best songs around today will have an awesome guitar solo being played in them. For those who are only just starting to learn how to play the guitar will wish to learn how to play an awesome guitar solo like their favorite guitarist. However, this is something that they won't be able to achieve 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 point during the playing of a piece your favorite guitarist will start play at a faster speed and if you cannot play the guitar you will be impressed by what they are able to do. For those of you who would like to be able to play a piece of music in the same way as other guitarists then you have to spend time on learning and developing the right legato techniques. It is important therefore you spend time practicing the pentatonic scales along with the 3 note per string 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 play an awesome guitar solo you need to learn shredding and for this a metronome is needed. These you can either purchase from a good music store including online ones or else you can find ones that you can download directly on to your computer. Using the metronome you need to increase the speed at which you are playing a particular piece of music until you can play the sixteenth notes at around two hundred 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. - 15275

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