Soloing Strategies for Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

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 R

Kolb reveals the tools and strategies necessary for creating memorable intelligent lead lines.If you're looking to break out of that pentatonic rut and greatly expand your repertoire look no further.Tom breaks these topics down in a concise easy-to-understand fashion and demonstrates their usefulness with exciting musical examples.Topics covered include: rocking up Mixolydian ? 3rds and 6ths ? arpeggios ? ?the railroad track? the easiest scale in the world ? minor scales and modes ? Lydian: a major alternative ? major-key soloing for rockers ? triad substitutions ? pentatonic double stops ? killer guitar tone ? open-string embellishments.

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'.