How Do The Pro's Build A Solo On Guitar

When soloing, as guitarists it is very easy for us to fall into the temptation of just running through scales without any logical thought behind. Guitar is a very shape based instrument. We have shapes of chords, triads, of scales… all we have to do is to move them around the frets and we’ll have a different key.

However, to write perfect solos every single time we need to know a little more than just the key and the scale we’ll use. We want to sound coherent, we want to sound great. And in this video you’ll learn a few things you need to keep in mind every time you solo or improvise.