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Learn How To Write And Play A Guitar Solo

By Expert Author: Ricky Sharples | Article Abstract
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If you want to learn how to write a guitar solo, you need to see yourself as the teacher. Most people start by learning riffs and licks from records. You don't have to learn whole solos note for note but you can just put together a collection of sequences of guitar notes that you like.

If you think you are sounding too much like the artist you are copying, don't worry. You will gradually get your own voice as you go along. If you find that you spend a lot of time thinking about guitar solos you night want to carry a notebook around with you so that you can try out your ideas when you are near a guitar.

The first thing you need to learn to write a guitar solo is a range of techniques that allow you to play a guitar solo. Here's a quick list:

Bending notes. You begin playing a note, then bend the string of the guitar with the finger you are using to fret the note up to the next note you are looking for. You can go up a half a step, a whole step, one and a half steps or two steps. You can then, if you want to, let the string go so you return to the original note you started with.

Pulling off notes. Pluck a note and have a second finger ready at a lower fret so that the finger you started with lets go so that the second note is heard.

Hammering on is the opposite of pulling off. You start with one finger fretting a note and a second finger ready to fret the next note. You pick the string and hammer the next note with your second finger.

Sliding. You fret a note and slide up or down the string to the next note. You can even slide on two strings to make sliding chords.

Vibrato is a technique where you bend the string up and down rapidly to prolong the note you are playing. In fact the sound you are making is the string oscillating between two notes.

Tapping. You tap on the fretboard with a right hand finger to produce a note.

Palm muting is where you bring the music to an abrupt stop by damping the guitar strings with the palm of your right hand.

Other equipment you will need to write guitar solos are a metronome, and a book containing the modes. When you get an opportunity experiment with the modes on any solo you happen to be working with at the moment. You will find it adds an extra bit of interest to a bunch of notes that you are sick to death of hearing and playing.

There are no rules to guitar solos. There is no right place to play any particular note. Just follow the chords of a song or the scale you want to work with.
Ricky Sharples

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Do you want to learn to play the guitar? Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free is a constantly updated blog which contains all the resources you need for: learning to play solo guitar, how to learn guitar chords, how to learn to read and play easy acoustic guitar tabs, finding a free online guitar tuner, looking for free guitar lessons online, and how to learn guitar scales.

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