Rock Soloing Strategies for Guitar

Licks tricks tones and tips for the aspiring lead guitarist! Expand your improvisational horizons with this incredible resource for all guitarists. Soloing Strategies For Guitar explores a variety of improvisational concepts and techniques backed up with fingering patterns exercises and lick examples galore. In Addition each chapter includes several extended solos (in the styles of rock blues funk jazz and country) based entirely on the techniques brought forth in each lesson. Furthermore each chapter features Quick Theory Tutorials that you can refer to if you need to brush up on your music theory. You'll find asection called Tone Tips that precedes each solo. Here you get suggestions for Guitar amplifier and effects settings. To top it all off there's a variety of play-along tracks on the accompanying online audio downloads that you can jam along with complete with chord charts and soloing suggestions.

If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock jazz country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords -even when they're playing single-note solos. In this one and a half hour lesson Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. Covering several musical genres Fred teaches you to:Play arpeggios country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like Jambalaya and Wreck of the Old 97. Solo and backup RandB songs like People Get Ready and Just My Imagination in the colorful styleJimi Hendrix used on Little Wing. Play Steve Cropper-style licks on Dock of the Bay and Under the Boardwalk. Improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like Avalon. You'll also learn some music theory and get abetter understanding of the guitar as Fred shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard and connect them in chord families. Lots of Fred's solos are written out in the accompanying tab/music booklet and ifyou put the DVD in your computer you can access a PDF file and print it all out in a larger size. Fred's relaxed style of teaching makes it easy for you to add new licks new color and new strategies to your lead guitarplaying.

Playing the blues is a great way to lose the blues and jamming with other people is one of the most fun things to do in life! Using blues classics like Stormy Monday The Thrill is Gone Keys To the Highway Big Boss Man ComeBack Bay and Every Day I Have the Blues as examples Fred teaches all the skills and info you need to jam with other blues players. This lesson covers accompaniment techniques for many different rhythm grooves (shuffle beat straight 8ths straight 4 and rock and funk beats) and soloing strategies (key-of-E licks four moveable blues boxes and some chord-based licks). You'll also learn intros turnarounds the twelve-bar and eight-bar blues forms andmore. Fred has been jamming with other players and leading jam classes most of his life and his practical tips are sure to give you all the tools you need to get out there and play the blues with other people. Along theway you'll learn some blues history and hear stories about some of the great players. Plus all the scales blues boxes licks chord shapes and tunes in this lesson are written out in tab and music in an accompanying book in theform of a PDF file. Titles include: 'Baby What Do You Want Me To Do' 'All The Love I Miss Loving' 'Stormy Monday' 'Big Boss Man' 'How Long Blues' 'Hesitation Blues' 'Stagerlee' 'As The Years Go Passing By' 'Corrine Corrina' and 'Every Day I Have the Blues'.