Practice one note. Bend it, hammer it, slide it, Tremelo it, half bend, full bend, bend and release, bend and hold, bend and vibrate, and so on and so forth. Make that one note talk and you can make them all talk.
I came across your site by chance - in 1987 I stopped being a musician and playing the guitar. At the beginning of the year I got my old Strat 25-Anniversary out (my God, that thing still sounds great after so many years) and rediscovered my passion. You helped me out - thank you very much - by the way, I'm 67 - greetings from Vienna
Eddie is one of the better teachers on you tube. He explains the how's of playing various guitar techniques in ways easy to understand. thank you Ed. you're definitely THE MAN!
Your videos about just taking a fragment of the scale is really good and helpful. I was one of the many that thought that you have to use the whole scale up and down to make something good, but then what. When you master those little fragments of the scale then you maximize the use of it. It’s really good and interesting the things you can learn with different people with different ideas.
Good lesson offering useful ideas for those stuck in the standard pentatonic rut players often find themselves in while getting all the shapes under their fingers. Thanks for taking the time to make this video!
Thank you, these are things i kinda figured out in the last few months just while playing everyday. I sit and play for 5+ hours a day. I feel like i lost alot of time im 23 and started gigging i used to play an acoustic in high school and stopped for years, bought my first electric a year ago and practice is everything in doing gigs with my drummer (oldest friend) now and ive only been playing “really” for about 15 months
As a very new beginner, I've been learning the extended pentatonics and can work my way across the fretboard and back but it doesn't sound "musical" at all, just a bunch of notes going up and down. I'm trying to learn things like this to turn those scales into something that sounds interesting, so this video is really helpful. Please make more vidoes on tricks and ideas for guitar "linguistics" and how to really go from a boring scale to something that sounds interesting. Love the video man, you're a great teacher!
Use the hotboxes he talks about you can go forward on a lick then run the lick backwards. Then hit triads in different octaves. Then maybe start sliding into some notes. Start a a hotbox lick slow then speed it up real quick but still keep it musical not too fast depending on beat. And definitely make sure to play scales with a backing track. Playing scales without a backing track vs playing with a backing track is a game changer. There is a RnB backing track in c minor on UA-cam and I think you would really enjoy. And another thing that I heard a guitarist say when soloing is to try and start in the middle and work your way up or down in octaves. Some start position 1 then climb. And another cool thing is starting a lick in position 1 for example instead of playing all 4 notes create a lick with 2 notes then finish the other two notes that finish it but in a different octave.
As always, a very useful, well explained, and simple to execute lesson Eddie 😍 It seems like a slightly abridged version of the 2-3-2-3-2-3 pattern (minor) and the 3-2-3-2-3-2 pattern (major), and I find these patterns to be of great help in moving up and down the fretboard. I may be wrong but I think there is a GMM lesson on these patterns too 🥳
@@OnwardAndEdward It actually might be, given that your physical abilities decline over the age, as well as your mental ability to learn and adopt new things. Fingers simply don't have the same movement and dexterity when you're 50 or 60 as they had when you're 20 or 30.
@@Acidificationable you’re right, however I’ve had students in their 70s and 80s pick up guitar for the first time and learn to play in a way that fulfills them. They may not be playing like Eddie Van Halen, but they’re finding joy in what they’re learning. It comes down to setting realistic goals, given your situation, and understanding that getting frustrated is a natural part of the process of developing new skills.
@@OnwardAndEdward I agree, after all, it's supposed to be fun and to fulfill you. However, not being able to play RHCP-s "Snow" is reaaaaally frustrating and makes me wanna quit. However, I won't, I just had to spill my bitterness. Love your course so far, everything else is on me, my impatience especially.
Helpful vid thx. Respectfully, we should not be soloing live for very long anyway. -Keep it short sweet and appropriate. Otherwise the ladies leave the dance floor. Cheers
I always thought of soloing as a conversation. Question and answer. You play a question lick and then answer it with another lick. I have never run out of questions.
I play licks in the same notes on different parts of the neck. Same three or four notes played the exact same in different positions and MOST people don't know I'm actually playing the same notes. Just in higher octaves. It doesn't sound the same. The variation of just changing strings but playing the same notes.....sounds different!
I think this is how I get confused. Learning the lesson how to solo in any key and caged. I’m always needing to know the key that we are in. So I’m confused with out knowing the key.
Holy s**t! You’ve just completely unlocked the fretboard for me with this lesson!
Haha this is awesome to hear!
What he goes into helps alot with improvisation, you need to be fearless when u improvise on your own and not be afraid to put the guitar down.
Same here. 🤘
Practice one note. Bend it, hammer it, slide it, Tremelo it, half bend, full bend, bend and release, bend and hold, bend and vibrate, and so on and so forth. Make that one note talk and you can make them all talk.
Great advice! Don't forget the trill.
if you bend the note, aren't you playing a second note 🧐
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Hammering and sliding it as well.
Exactly.
I have no idea what any of that means 😅
I came across your site by chance - in 1987 I stopped being a musician and playing the guitar. At the beginning of the year I got my old Strat 25-Anniversary out (my God, that thing still sounds great after so many years) and rediscovered my passion. You helped me out - thank you very much - by the way, I'm 67 - greetings from Vienna
Eddie is one of the better teachers on you tube. He explains the how's of playing various guitar techniques in ways easy to understand. thank you Ed. you're definitely THE MAN!
Indeed he is. Try Rusty too. They're both excellent.
Try Marty too...
Excellent video, thank you sir 👍🏻
Ok so I have been looking for this for a long time and never attempted to solo as I couldn’t understand others. You make sense thank you
Your videos about just taking a fragment of the scale is really good and helpful. I was one of the many that thought that you have to use the whole scale up and down to make something good, but then what. When you master those little fragments of the scale then you maximize the use of it. It’s really good and interesting the things you can learn with different people with different ideas.
Eddie your lessons are the best. Thank you
Good lesson offering useful ideas for those stuck in the standard pentatonic rut players often find themselves in while getting all the shapes under their fingers. Thanks for taking the time to make this video!
Thanks,very helpfull insruction❤
I love your videos brother.lota of excellent containt!!thanks!
Once again beyond awesome...your gmm courses are gold and worth every penny
Cheers Patrick!
Im constantly doing exactly what you described at the beginning of the video, and I'm an advanced player. Thank u for the advice. 👍👍
Helpful video thanks!
Totally sweet info! You are An amazing teacher and are helping me tremendously get out of my Multi year rut. Thank you so much!!!!!
Happy to help!
That makes so much sense, really glad I watched this lesson.
Thanks sooo much for this. It opened my eyes....literally.
Your videos completely changed me to next level
An Absolute awesome lesson. Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤❤
Yoo your number 5 best guitar teachers, enjoy your motivation spirit.
Very useful tips. Thank you 😀👍🏽🎸🎵🥳
All true. Great video.
Hooray! Another awesome video
Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely attitude. Thanks for the tips.
Anytime, Vince!
Thank you for the class!
Been playing 20 years and I still suck at soloing. This is brilliant, yet simple! Thanks!
Thank you, these are things i kinda figured out in the last few months just while playing everyday. I sit and play for 5+ hours a day. I feel like i lost alot of time im 23 and started gigging i used to play an acoustic in high school and stopped for years, bought my first electric a year ago and practice is everything in doing gigs with my drummer (oldest friend) now and ive only been playing “really” for about 15 months
That was quite nice advice 😁🙌🇬🇧
Great Advisory Blueprint Here... And Thanx For The Instructional Video 😎👊💯💯
You told me before to include "dynamic" while playing the licks. It will also enhace the play. Cheers from Indonesia.
Very useful ideas tysm Eddie 👍👍❤️
Great lesson.
Good teacher 🙏 getting interesting.
Another fantastic vid 👍👍👍
As a very new beginner, I've been learning the extended pentatonics and can work my way across the fretboard and back but it doesn't sound "musical" at all, just a bunch of notes going up and down. I'm trying to learn things like this to turn those scales into something that sounds interesting, so this video is really helpful. Please make more vidoes on tricks and ideas for guitar "linguistics" and how to really go from a boring scale to something that sounds interesting. Love the video man, you're a great teacher!
Use the hotboxes he talks about you can go forward on a lick then run the lick backwards. Then hit triads in different octaves. Then maybe start sliding into some notes. Start a a hotbox lick slow then speed it up real quick but still keep it musical not too fast depending on beat. And definitely make sure to play scales with a backing track. Playing scales without a backing track vs playing with a backing track is a game changer. There is a RnB backing track in c minor on UA-cam and I think you would really enjoy. And another thing that I heard a guitarist say when soloing is to try and start in the middle and work your way up or down in octaves. Some start position 1 then climb. And another cool thing is starting a lick in position 1 for example instead of playing all 4 notes create a lick with 2 notes then finish the other two notes that finish it but in a different octave.
Really appreciate your videos
As always, a very useful, well explained, and simple to execute lesson Eddie 😍 It seems like a slightly abridged version of the 2-3-2-3-2-3 pattern (minor) and the 3-2-3-2-3-2 pattern (major), and I find these patterns to be of great help in moving up and down the fretboard. I may be wrong but I think there is a GMM lesson on these patterns too 🥳
Very very useful!
GOOD TIP..
Thanks mate. Ur making an old 58 year old play again. Cheers.
Motif: a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed.
You are great...
Great Lesson
This was fantastic and I have learned most of my blues guitar thanks to my man here!!!
Thanks, man! Your course and videos made me finally stop lying myself and quit trying to learn how to play.
It’s never too late to pick it back up
@@OnwardAndEdward It actually might be, given that your physical abilities decline over the age, as well as your mental ability to learn and adopt new things. Fingers simply don't have the same movement and dexterity when you're 50 or 60 as they had when you're 20 or 30.
@@Acidificationable you’re right, however I’ve had students in their 70s and 80s pick up guitar for the first time and learn to play in a way that fulfills them. They may not be playing like Eddie Van Halen, but they’re finding joy in what they’re learning.
It comes down to setting realistic goals, given your situation, and understanding that getting frustrated is a natural part of the process of developing new skills.
@@OnwardAndEdward I agree, after all, it's supposed to be fun and to fulfill you. However, not being able to play RHCP-s "Snow" is reaaaaally frustrating and makes me wanna quit. However, I won't, I just had to spill my bitterness.
Love your course so far, everything else is on me, my impatience especially.
@@AcidificationableBB king is over twenty and sounds ok not forgetting Eric Clapton ,Carlos Santana,Keith Richards I could go on and on……
How could no one make a comment about these soloing instructions?🎸🎼🎵🎶
This dude is badass
Hi Eddie all good here in the UK. Good lesson mate.
Great to hear, Rod!
Ωραίος!!!
BB hung out on the 8th and 10th box so much they named it after him 😂😂😂 great video
And once again we get Two Tickets to Paradise. Thanks again Eddie.
I takes discipline to learn guitar but it's worth the effort
Awesome instructor for real, instructor sir what is your name, how could I get in touch to ask few questions please?
Does that happen to be a 1993 PRS ? I had one that looked exactly like this one, sold it around 2014-15. Just curious 👍
Chuckie!
Guitar linguistics!
Helpful vid thx. Respectfully, we should not be soloing live for very long anyway. -Keep it short sweet and appropriate. Otherwise the ladies leave the dance floor. Cheers
I agree! Definitely read the room when playing with a band. This is more for when you’re at home woodshedding your improv chops.
I always thought of soloing as a conversation. Question and answer. You play a question lick and then answer it with another lick. I have never run out of questions.
I play licks in the same notes on different parts of the neck. Same three or four notes played the exact same in different positions and MOST people don't know I'm actually playing the same notes. Just in higher octaves. It doesn't sound the same. The variation of just changing strings but playing the same notes.....sounds different!
Yeah man, changing the phrasing within the same three or four notes can open new doors in a solo.
hey i got that shirt...:)
You don't want to endlessly drone on and on though, otherwise your drummer won't be able to tell when to cut you off.
This is more focused around when you’re at home working on your improv chops. Obviously in a band setting you’ll want to read the room.
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Eddie is excellent so isn’t Brian,AM.
I think this is how I get confused. Learning the lesson how to solo in any key and caged. I’m always needing to know the key that we are in. So I’m confused with out knowing the key.
I’m playing A minor pentatonic in this video, in case that’s what you’re wondering.
Your ear will tell you the key with practice just don't stop 🛑💯
I’ve been in “A” zone. But not “The” zone. 😢
I've been to AutoZone
@@ShawnEaton-zv7zx get in the zone… 😉
9:59 Aren't you one note(E on the g string) away from the famous "house pattern"?