I know you want to be a better lead guitar player... me to! The technique you'll learn on this video can do that to you: take you to the next level of lead playing. Just do this ever day when you pick up your guitar.  

The ability to connect the chords and the scales is one the best ways to sound more melodic and creative. It will increase your confidence especially when it comes to picking the right notes to solo.  

This is part 2 of this lesson. This is a beginner-intermediate solo improvising guitar lesson.

I know you want to be a better lead guitar player... me to! The technique you'll learn on this video can do that to you: take you to the next level of lead playing. Just do this ever day when you pick up your guitar.

The ability to connect the chords and the scales is one the best ways to sound more melodic and creative. It will increase your confidence especially when it comes to picking the right notes to solo.

This is a beginner-intermediate solo improvising guitar lesson.

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.

Are you still struggling to use the whole fretboard to solo? Are you still stuck on only one or two shapes and you can’t connect all the scales? It’s time to get over this limitation.

Learn a few great ways to connect the notes of your fretboard so that you can use the totality of your instrument. Break this limitation down by following the steps I teach in this lesson.

Even though we’ll use the same Pentatonic scale to create our solos, the minor blues sound very different from the major one. It has a much darker sound, it’s moody and serious, but at the same time it’s beautiful and very powerful.

In this lesson you’ll learn a few of the best ways to start soloing over the minor blues using the pentatonic plus adding a few notes to it to have amazing results.

As a guitarist, I always loved the so-called Lead Guitar parts. The riffs, the solos, the hooks, so I always wanted to become one. So much so that, for a while, I never really cared for the chords and the rhythm session of the band. The reality is that the solo or the hook is just a small part of the song. Actually, 90% of a song will be chords and rhythm.

It didn’t take long for me to understand that I had to get into the rhythm part in order to be able to be part of a band. And then is when I realized that to become a great Lead Guitarist, I first needed to be a great Rhythm Guitarist. I cannot be a great Lead if I have no clue what is going on in the Rhythm session. And you know what? Once you get it right, it will be one of the most fun things to do.

In this video I’ll give you an example of a song I play at church, called Great Things, by Phil Wickham. There are some very cool parts, hooks and dynamics that can make your guitar playing very fun.

I was never very big in learning other guitarists solos. I can't ever remember sitting down and learning note-by-note of a solo. Rather, I learn the structure of the solo, how it starts, how it develops and how it ends. Learn also the key parts that make that solo amazing. But I never learn note-by-note.

But why is it so important for guitarists to learn other guitarists' solos?

More important than learning note-by-note of a solo, is to learn what is the thought behind it, the techniques and the main ideas that you can borrow to implemento on your own vocabulary. It is to make your guitar playing better that you learn other guitarists solos, and not for the sake of copying someone's music abilities.

In this video I’ll show you an example of a solo I learned (not note-by-note) and how I used to shape my own playing.

If you love guitar, you certainly love a beautiful memorable guitar solo. A solo that you can feel what the guitarist is expressing, a solo that inspires you, that touches and connects to the listener.

In this video I’ll break down both my techniques and my mindset when I write my solos. Learn the tools that make a great solo apply them to your soloing today! 

Learn how to make your guitar solos more musical, meaningful and how to connect to the music and the listener.

If you love guitar, you certainly love a beautiful memorable guitar solo. A solo that you can feel what the guitarist is expressing, a solo that inspires you, that touches and connects to the listener.

In this video I’ll break down both my techniques and my mindset when I write my solos. Learn the tools that make a great solo apply them to your soloing today!

Learn how to make your guitar solos more musical, meaningful and how to connect to the music and the listener.

“I feel stuck when soloing…”

“My solos are boring and always sound the same…”

“I feel like I always sound the same and and I see I’m playing the same licks over and over…”

Who never said those things before, right? We all have been there.

In this lesson I’ll teach you how with only five simple steps you can completely change the way you solo over the blues. It’s simple, it’s easy to grasp and to apply. I am 100% sure that you can still play with these ideas today!

Grab your guitar and have fun!