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4 Notes that will Instantly TRANSFORM Your Guitar Solos!

improv Mar 08, 2024

Unlock the secrets of mesmerizing guitar solos with our latest lesson, "The 4 Notes That Will Instantly TRANSFORM Your Guitar Solos!" Dive into the world of lead guitar as we guide you through essential techniques to elevate your soloing. This lesson is crafted for players aiming to enhance improvisational skills and add magic to performances.

Discover the power behind four carefully selected notes that will revolutionize your approach, providing tools for soulful solos. Whether seasoned or starting, this lesson unlocks impactful soloing secrets. We break down each note's intricacies, offering practical insights on seamless incorporation.

Elevate your abilities, master expression, and captivate your audience with "The 4 Notes That Will Instantly TRANSFORM Your Guitar Solos!" Join for an experience reshaping your approach, leaving you equipped to stand out as a lead guitarist.

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The Ultimate Solo Guide to RockOn for LIFE!!

improv solo Mar 01, 2024

Get ready to elevate your guitar skills to new heights with this lesson. By the end, you'll have all the essential tools to rock on for the rest of your life.

It's a familiar story for many beginner and intermediate guitarists: feeling trapped when it comes to soloing. Despite knowing the pentatonic and blues scales, they find themselves merely running up and down the strings, relying on a handful of memorized licks, and then hitting a dead end.

But fear not, because that's about to change for you. Say goodbye to feeling stuck and hello to newfound confidence and creativity. In this video, I'll guide you through the techniques and strategies that will unlock your full potential. So grab your guitar, and let's rock on together.

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5 Steps To Unlocking Blues Guitar Solo

improv Oct 29, 2023

These 5 steps will unlock your soloing over the blues for good. You will be able to solo again and again without repeating ideas neither getting stuck.

Most intermediate guitar players get stuck very quickly when soloing over the blues. They play a few licks and riffs, jam over the Pentatonic scale and that’s it. They’re stuck by the second turn around.

This is a common problem for intermediate guitar players, and there are a few reasons for it. First, the blues is a very expressive genre of music, and it can be difficult to come up with new and interesting ideas on the fly. Second, the blues is based on a relatively simple chord progression, and it can be easy to get stuck in a rut.

The 5 simple steps I teach in this video can get unstuck for good, it can make you solo without running out of ideas again. Learn these steps and put them into practice right away. Here are the 5 simple steps to solo over the blues without running out of ideas:

1. Use more than one...

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TIPS FOR AN OLDER Or Longtime Beginner Guitar Player

improv Oct 16, 2023

Do you want to take your guitar soloing to the next level? Whether you've been playing for ages or you're just starting out, there are a few foundational steps you can take to improve your skills. In this video, I'll guide you through these steps using the key of Bm and a backing track.

Start with the pentatonic scale. It's one of the most popular scales for guitar soloing, and it's a great place to start if you're new to improvisation. Once you've mastered the pentatonic scale, you can start adding notes to it to create more complex and interesting solos.

In this video, I'll show you how to add notes to the pentatonic scale to create the full minor scale. I'll also show you how to use two different pentatonic shapes to create a more varied and melodic solo.

It's important to note that you shouldn't get stuck in only one pentatonic shape position. However, for the sake of simplicity, I'll be using only two shapes in this video.

Once you've learned the basics of soloing, you can...

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Pentatonic shapes: Master them all!

improv Oct 09, 2023

Have you ever felt stuck in a rut with your pentatonic shapes? Like you're always playing the same patterns over and over again? Well, you're not alone. But there's good news: there's a way to break free from this monotony and master all the pentatonic shapes.

The secret is to practice. But not just any kind of practice. You need to practice in a way that is fun and engaging. That's why I've created this video for you.

In this video, we're going to learn all the pentatonic shapes together, one by one. But we're not just going to play dry exercises. We're going to make it fun by playing along with backing tracks and exploring different ways to phrase using each shape.

So grab your guitar and let's get started!

Here are some tips to make your pentatonic practice more interesting:

  • Play along with backing tracks in different styles, such as blues, rock, and country. This will help you to learn how to apply the pentatonic scale to different genres of music.
  • Experiment with different...
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How to unstuck your blues solos?

blues improv Oct 15, 2022

“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!

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UNSTUK and CHANGE your soloing over the blues with only these 2 notes!

blues improv Jul 04, 2022

Every good real lead guitarist has a few tricks up their sleeves. A few signature licks, a scale run, maybe a particular technique or even some very special group of notes that they use very strategically.

These tricks up the sleeves are usually to be used in between phrasing and to change the mood and give different dynamics in the solo.

In this lesson you’ll learn two specific notes I’ve been using for decades to completely change the mood of my phrasing. Not only have I been using it on my solos, but also to create variations and new musical ideas. The theory behind can be very sophisticated, the application of it, however, super simple and approachable. Completely change the mood of your solo. Unstuck your soloing over blues!

Grab your guitar and have fun!

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How to start soloing on guitar? The best way you can start soloing in any key & genre

how to improv solo Apr 13, 2022

Many of my students come to me asking the same question: How to start soloing on guitar?

If you want a shortcut and start soloing right away, this is the best way you can start soloing in any key & genre.

With only these four notes you’ll learn on this lesson, you can do so much! All you need is to understand how to apply them and how to make the difference between major and minor keys.

Grab your guitar and have fun!

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Are you stuck in your solos?

blues improv solo Feb 14, 2022

In this video you will learn 5 simple steps that will transform your soloing over the blues FOR GOOD!

We all got stuck when soloing before. You run out of ideas and start to repeat the same lick or pattern you feel safe, but there's nothing else you can add to the solo.

The five steps I'm teaching in this lesson will solve the "writer's block" you might be facing. If you know all the options you have, and you apply them strategically, you'll never run out of ideas again.

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My thoughts behind my note choices when I'm soloing

improv Jan 29, 2022

 What’s involved in the thought process when it comes to coming up with solos and improvisation sessions? Is it the major scale? The pentatonic scale? Arpeggios? Greek modes? Think isolating each chord? What about all the above?

In this video you will learn how I think, what my options are and how I come up with my note choices. In my case, everything started with one thing…

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