How do I START a guitar solo?
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- In this MicroLesson, I'll walk you through my thought process for how to start a guitar solo. In addition, you'll learn how to start with a basic 3 note major chord arpeggio, and slowly make a more sophisticated sounding lead by adding intervals.
To view the tablature for the little improvised composition towards the end of the video, visit: www.activemelo...
I was making a lot of progress on guitar several years ago but I met my wife and just focused on her and kind of quit all of my hobbies for whatever reason. But she left me on 6/19/23 (2 days after my birthday and 8 days before our 5th wedding anniversary) and I immediately started feeling a pull back to my old hobbies. Like I guess I was like just content in my life just being with her or complacent or something - like all I needed was her - but since she left, I've got to fill my mind, heart and soul with the other things that make me happy.. Something like that anyway. But this situation made a lyric or song title pop into my head and I'm wanting to expand on it and write a whole song - "Mourning an Illusion". Like the fact she left me so randomly and without a warning, fight or discussion makes me realize, our relationship must not have been what I thought it was and so what am I sad about? I'm mourning something that didn't even exist.
Exactly... It's like mourning something that never really, fully existed. It should make you a great song.
I'm outside on my porch with my fender. I'm watching this in the sun on my tablet and jamming along. Couldn't ask for a better time.
You are just the total best instructor. I just love watching, and sharing with friends too
THANK YOU BRIAN!! The Fretboard is opening up nicely due to this lesson.
Ok Brian, I don t know if You realise the treasure of this lesson. This lesson is pure gold For us, who are trying to learn something being more than 40 years old. Thanks a Lot !!!! ❤❤❤
Love you. I'm 64 yrs but still learning and enjoying blues solo
Lovely lesson proving once again that there’s so much richness to be mined from the basics.
A surprisingly helpful lesson, great idea and Brian introduces the note numbers in the little arpeggio then in the minor pentatonic. I had been struggling to make musical phrases in the pentatonic shapes but that simple arpeggio is made from the chord tones, suddenly it's making musical and meaningful phrases almost automatically. The chord tones, the 1, 3, 5 notes from the scale are the money notes. The he adds the 7th and the 6th and you can hear the rich effect these new notes bring. This micro lesson is a real gem to be messed around with and practiced until it's under your fingers and understood.
Man, I love light bulb moments. You made triads so simple and digestible
Brilliant. More like this please Brian. 😁👍🏻
Wow, what a great lesson! Thanks, Brian! The little improv bit you go into in A near the last of the lesson is the best part. You've really helped me understand the guitar better than I have in 30 years!
One of the best lessons ever. An absolute practical approach to the first steps of improvising a solo. The ironic thing is how much is packed into this one lesson. It would also be nice to see you work up a lead using the melody line of a familiar song, similarly relating the melody to the chord changes as you do here.
It's all so simple - when Brian explains it. Why can't I figure it out for myself most of the time? It is probably because I think too complicated, that I have not completely internalized the fretboard and chord structures and because I am sometimes simply too lazy to concentrate on them. The "Method Brian" is a good key to make decisive progress here.
Thank you Brian, I appreciate the way you break things down. I have been playing for over 55 years and for so many of those I was stuck in the minor pentatonic scale and as I have tried to expand beyond that to include modes, major and minor scales ext.. I find myself constantly guilty of drinking from the fire hose and getting frustrated. Lessons like this one help me out a lot because it pulls together very simply all the things that I seem sometimes to over think and drowned myself in. Thanks again keep them coming.
Recognise that! Me too 😊
Great lesson, the only disappointing part of this was that I only have one thumbs up to give, it deserves many more.
and there it is..........great lesson Brian
first solo lesson that didnt start with minor pentatonic! what a great lesson! So glad to be a member of Active Melody.. Thank you Brian.
Excellent lesson! I was struggling to understand note playing as it pertains to chords. Not having the chords playing under the notes 🎶 opened up my mind and ears to how comping over chords should work and sound. Thank you!!!!
As I am viewing this lesson for the first time....the word.... "Wonderful" comes to mind....
This "building block" style of teaching is really effective and you do it very well. Thanks Brian.
Hey Brian, thanks for the awesome lesson! I really appreciate it. One thing I struggle with when it comes to soloing by myself is maintaining the rhythm. Everything tends to blend together and it becomes a big blob of sound that doesn't feel musical anymore. Thanks again!
That lesson has just added a heap of progress to my playing. Wonderful things will now occur, thanks Brian!
Perhaps the most useful lesson I've ever come across. Thank you so much. Oh and a special thanks for explaining that you can still play in the same scale when the chords change. I've always been so confused and overwhelmed thinking I needed to know the chord progression and then switching scales to suit.
Spent this evening listening and having a go. Great stuff very helpful. Thank you
Excellent video bro. Can you do some more stuff like this? Definitely helped a lot.
OMG!!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 For some reason this lesson....this lesson right here..got me.... everything came together about 7 mins..great lesson..ive been trying to create music with what i have learned and have been unsuccessfull. I listen to what you say and how you teach and still cannot come up with my own ideas...I FEEL LIKE I HAVE JUST CROSSED THAT BRIDGE!! Ty❤❤
Thanks from the UK! All of your videos on working with chord changes and using arpeggios, triads, intervals are very helpful when playing over chords with a larger guitar group meet-up instead of just playing chords. It's really starting to pay off -people asking me to turn up the volume instead of down. Cheers.
You're an awesome teacher.
Thank you Brian - this has been a ‘light bulb lesson’ for me. Really insightful and I get it, finally. Thank you so much for your brilliant teaching over the years. Your lessons are a highlight of my week. Keep on keepin’ on. 😁😁😁
I always enjoy the way you present your guitar lessons bro. Very comprehensive and they attract my attention very easily. You’re always one of my best guitar tutors on ytube. Thanks a lot.
simple, but that's how you learn where the 6 and 7 are, great thanks Brian
Can’t ever get enough!! Thanks
You have a superb way of teaching Brian,im really enjoying trying this out it,it is gradually sinking in.
Great lesson, thanks.
Thanks Brian, nicely done!
Very good teaching and many thanks.
Gotta love a guy who still has a large LP collection.
Brilliant lesson, Brian! Fits exactly to where I am at in my guitar journey… more of that would be appreciated.👍🏼
Thank you once again Brian! You nailed it
You are getting big Brian!!! That is great news, finally time your channel shoots the moon!
Why thank ya 🙏 we’ll have to collab sometime
@@activemelody - That would be super fun, but I don’t really want my channel to get much bigger actually. 😂
Great lesson, more like this, following on.
Simple but an ah moment lesson! Thanks Brian!
Looks like Arlo may have played that guitar once! Very useful lesson that wraps up a number of concepts, yet not overly complex. Very pragmatic.
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Winner, Brian!
Great lesson!
this is about to be your most watched vid.
cause im about to watch it couple of dozen times.
this is why I pay for active melody. brian knows how to teach better than anyone on youtube and simplify something and make it sound amazing.
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That's a guitar lesson - right there! 👏
Great lesson. Thank you.
Fantastic indeed
Can really understand what you mean
Keep up the great lessons
Keep ‘‘em coming
helps a lot . fantastic explanation . thank you so much !
Great stuff.
Great stuff. Thank-you.
Superb!
wow... half a million subscribers... Congrats Brian...
Thank you! Great lesson and great teacher. I am finally learning the blues. I am so happy...ehh...I am so blue ;-)
Very cool extra Macrolesson, Brian! I always learn something new :) ♪❤
my answer. BIG BEND!!!
Outstanding, again! Thanks so much!
Damn good lesson.
Man what a good lesson. Had a beginners light bulb go off
Grazie per le dritte, le metterò subito in atto
Excellent stuff as usual. Thanks.😊
Very nice, Brian. Thank you
Excellent lesson
Lovely lesson, jam packed with really useful ideas.
You mentioned the 2 ways of approaching the notes - either from chord shapes and building up to the scale or from the root scale and identifying the shapes.
Im interested in the mindset of this and my question is; what do you personally do in your head when approaching the changes?
Good it has got me going
Excellent 2100 Spain 👍😁
That was a really good video, learned a lot from it , thanks.
Wow… great lesson 😊
Well done. Thanks. Great stuff.
Quite brilliant!
Awsome lesson. I will be free to improvising in not time
Thank you great lesson
I ❤ the vlogs/ MicroLessons (macro). Any instructional on ‘how’ to is helpful. The idea of using selected ingredients and keeping the recipe simple but more informative can turn on more lightbulbs. Example: If I wanted to use this recipe: sus2, sus4, E shape,A shape and one scale position. What can be made with it to make it successful? Thanks in advance Chef.
Another great lesson in your typically awesome style but I gotta say I kept being distracted by that gorgeous Gibson!!!! What a beauty! What can you tell us about it???
Early 50s L4 👍
@@activemelody Wow. If it was mine I'd be tempted to keep that baby locked up in a vault somewhere and only bring it out on special occasions. What a treasure. I'm salivating. LOL Thanks for the info.
Yeah, I liked it!
Awesome lesson - thanks! You mentioned starting on the and- of-three. Why? How would I know what / where to start a lead? Why did you choose the and-of-three and not simply the one? Do you have any lessons on this type of timing?? I'll keep searching otherwise.
Thanks.
Thankyou
Hey Brian, (Premium member here) I was just talking about this exact topic this morning with a freind........ After a couple of years with you I've got a whole lot of knowledge and tecnique.... But how to put it togther. The 1,4, 5 sound good. But how to build in a bridge, or make up a chorus......... thats where I get confused.. Cheers
I'm putting you forward for a gong in the next honours list. 👍
Wait, is that good or bad? 😬
@@activemelody Brian lol!
How about including the major 7 note in the major key solo, F# note of G in this case? Just like the flat7 note is included in a minor key solo. Thankyou
15:23 yes it is pretty.
Quisiera que fuera traducido al castellano gracias saludos
Another light bulb moment, thanks Brian
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Normally I put down a certain chord progression and when I begin to solo, depending what chord I'm playing over I will slide into the root note over that chord. Am chord > start with A of the Am pentatonic and work around those notes mixing through scale notes over the other chords as they change. The notes in that scale (C,E,D,G) will work as a starting point as well. Bends, vibrato, Tap sequences all fall within this. It's all based on what you are hearing in your head, feeling etc. You can't really teach that. Learning notes is one thing, making them musical within yourself is a whole other deal.
But i can't play bar chords!
This lesson has nothing to do with playing barre chords
oh, i only watched it to 2:25 where you demonstrate a barre chord, i'll carry on watching then till the end.