Scales, scales, scales, scales and more scales. Mostly all solos are based on scales.

Yes solos are based on scales, but experiment with whatever you can do. Switch to some distortion, and try making a solo with as little as 8 notes, until you hear something you like. Then slam down some chords, or lengthen the solos as you get better at it. Holding a note here & there, with sustain or bending is good too. You don`t have to keep it going by adding new notes costantly, all the same length. Strat man Dwight

ok guys and girls, here are some basic truths.
No one person has the right way top play or solo or compose or whatever. The best way to learn is to listen, listen to old records, blues, jazz, rock whatever! Don`t restrict yourself to one style. Play LOTS.... and then play more, go see live music, play with other musicians as much as possible!! Let go of your EGO, (sneering take note) no one likes a guitarist with attitude! be humble and if you hear someone play something nice say so, ask him or her to show you. Learn some basic theory if you like it can make a big difference. Don`t try to do it all at once. Learn solos note for note, try to learn as many as you can and play them until they are spot on and guess what happens next? your own style will form because you have a bunch of stuff to build from! You can`t build anything without material whether it`s a house or a song you need basic material.
Hope this helps some of you and the rest who think they know everything well nothing will help you anyway so stumble along in the dark and you will never achive greatness.

Franck

Good answers, good work Franck. Strat Man Dwight

Well I would say im a really good solo person, I can play all the Metallica songs all through and many others.

Anyways the first thing you do is know the speed rythem beat etc. You don`t need to know this petatonic crap.u want a good solo you start with a good interlude and make it flow right into a solo. Example start low and then work your way high switch back and forth between low and high or mix it up. If your in a band you have an advantage. The drums are the key, listen to the beat that will tell you where to go. there is really no way to how to solo you have to work on it thats all there is to it. Fined a good insprarational band. Like Metallica, Van Halen, Guns And Roses, get Tab books of them and just practice on their stayels of playing.

In order to play you have to have a stayel. You can also have many. for a good solo you should start with blues or jazz but not metal metal is very good soloing but also very hard and very fast. So if your looking to play metal solos work up to it first. Another thing to learing is DO NOT RUSH rushing will make you very sloppy and makes whatever your trying to learn to take longer. You can not to listen to me its your choice but beleive it , it workes. E-mail me if you have Q`s. mrslash2u@comcast.net

ok, chris cheney=greatest guitarist ever
how the fuk does he make those solos?

i av no idea how to make a solo iv bin playin for 8 years but i jst cant do it i try and try da stuff i make sounds ok but i can never get en thing with a really cool tune where every1 goes wow pleze help me send me some tabs with scales andtips on wat to do i dont know ne of this stuff about key and all dat but if u tell me a few nots to play in tab i can do it really easily pleze help email your advise to milkman4456@hotmail.com il be very very gr8ful of your help and i would be in your debt i am in a band we av all th chords and every thing butwe want some solo pleze pleze pleze pleze help me thanks

hi! 2 all... i would like to ask what does i have to learn or to practice so i can make a guitar solo on a certain key without hesitation and always on track? this is really disturbing my guitar playing...

what is a tapping solo? and how it is done? can anyone give me some tab(licks) of it that i can do...

what penatonic scale would i use to make a solo for a song with a,b minor,and d chords

To make guitar solos you must first know about the keys on a guitar, i don`t know them all so you should try to look them up somewhere. The first note of the song is whatever key it is in. Once you know which key it`s in, you have to know scales. There are hundreds of scales and I can`t name them all so look them up to. Whatever key the song is in, you can start a solo there as long as it has the same notes as the scale.

for example: if ur song repeats Chords G,C,Am,D. then the lead guy breaks off and plays single Notes in the G,C,Am,D scales(groups.) change KEy (G,C,Am,D) to match up with the chord as it changes. wow thats alot of notes to learn! (u can use ur guitar tuner help find these hidden notes if ur not into learning scales.) **Also know, if u have a G chord anyplace on the fretboard, any note in that chord can be played during a solo for G! so learn some chords at the 12th fret... pwew!

IBENEZ FREAK IS RIGHT.WHEN I FIRST STARTED PLAYING ALL I DONE IS LEARN OTHER PEOPLES STUFF.KNOW I RECORD MY OWN STUFF
AND I DOESNT SOUND TO BAD.I HAVENT PLAYED A COVER TOON IN 7 YEARS.JUST APPLY WHAT IBENEZ FREAK SAID AND LET IT RIP

if the tonic note for a chord progression is not the first chord where could i find it?

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