How To Start Playing Guitar Solos
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Going over a quick, easy lesson on how to start looking at notes if you want to get into playing guitar solos or adding lead lines to chords. It's really just seeing six notes as potentially landing points across two strings. Make sure to check out my dude, Dovydas, as he's a legit master of this:
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Sean Daniel is a man. A man of simple needs and desires. And the one desire, no, the one NEED, that stands above all is to spread the challenges, joy and intellectual stimulus of music to people of Earth and beyond.
Born on the mean streets of upper middle class suburban Chicago, Sean learned the ways of the world through the dizzying heights of success to the lonesome depths of failure and emerged with the promise of a better tomorrow reflecting in his eyes and fiery passion in his belly.
He plays and teaches guitar on his UA-cam channel where he regularly releases original music and projects to the adulation of legions of fans, who often compare him to Chris Pratt and one time Ryan Reynolds. He’s currently in the market for a nice leather jacket.
If you learn to solo, your playing is instantly so much better cause you understand how to involve your knowledge while playing chords as well. Understanding notes and how they work together is so important.
i cant afford the drugs to keep up with this dude!
Guitar solos are one of the best ways one could Express and move people with emotions. Love to solo and improvise indeed! Cheers
Thanks so much for watching!
@@seandaniel23 You are very welcome as always!
Excellent 👍
So baisically it’s no emotion as I can’t solo fast
Sean!! After two years of messing around on my guitar you finally taught me how to play a solo! Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️ all I did was look up an e minor backing track and played the shape you showed me to my hearts desire and it sounded great, I still need work but thank you for getting me started!!
I'm a beginner but somehow I know this is a very important lesson...
Did it work for you?
I started out wrong, using only two fingers and its really hard to unlearn
@@sebascaballero2001 Sorry.. I only saw your question... I'm terrible.. I haven't tried anything based on this video yet.. I should be ashamed.. but now I will..
@@sergeantcrow keep me posted on progress. I’m learning too
@@jaytoochill_ Thanks for reply.. Good on you.. You seem dedicated.... and I hope you make plenty of progress.. Sean's generous insights are valuable..
This is awesome, Mr. Sean. I'll never be a note picker or lead guy. By strumming these strings together on those intervals is a pleasing sound. Bar chord it, strum the high strings up the neck, then the low ones down. Makes a nice sound.
Rock on Brad!
Excellent Sean, thank you. Your YT videos in 2022 are making so much more sense to me and are providing both a visual & musical link between chords & melody/riffs & scales. 🤝🏼👍🏾👍🏼🤜🏾🤛🏽
You have very comprehensive videos. You have a talent for teaching
The sparkling water line deserves to be noted. Well done.
Good lesson Sean,
Your sessions help me use music theory. Playing by ear is a gift from Jesus. I’m attempting to do both.
For me being versatile with chords, triads, pentatonic scales and blues scales help me break out of being boxed in, and allows me to go up and down the guitar neck.
Thanks Sean
Tony Hawk; I am one of the blessed few, that was able to become pretty accomplished at both, right before becoming a teenager.
Being Raised in a single parent home, and in a Pentecostal Church from Birth, music has been, and is, part of who and what I am!
Hey man. Thanks for this lesson. I've just been playing a few months and recently I've been thinking of dipping my toe into the world of lead guitar. This lesson has been the most helpful one I've come across so far. Thanks dude!
Very interesting concepts for beginning to learn how to solo! Simple but effective for learning
Sean, been watching you teach for ever...this is the first time(video) you really got my attention. I thank "YOU" !
"Tell me what you think..." Well Sean, I think you are one hell of a guitar teacher.
I like using 3 per string and it's helpful linking together position shapes. Cheers Sean!
This inspired me so much to start playing my guitar right now. Cheers man, great video!
Sean/ It may be lockdown here in London (and beyond) but your lessons are proving to be most useful + informative. Many thanks. Keith
Thanks Sean: love your approach to music.🎸
Thanks so much!
Awesome lesson! Working the major scale and then transitioning into the major pentatonic on the treble strings is a recipe for shredding madness! If this is a taste of the MasterClass between you and Dovydas, then the world is mine to conquer upon taking the above class, lol.
that 3 note per string finding the root on the first string is a great vehicle to start from to learn some solo guitar..thanks....
Sean! Dude. Thanks so much for making such great videos. As a beginner leaning towards becoming an intermediate player, you’ve been amazing at helping me fill in a lot of the gaps in my technique and theory.
Your “salty blues” comment of the week, always has me laughing (bonus points for your epic troll voice!), and I always walk away learning something valuable.
Thanks for making me a better player, and if it makes you feel any better.. I too have never been able to finish a can of sparkling water 😂
Rock on, bud 🤘🏻
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how to play solo on the guitar, Sean! 👍
Happy to help!
Really cool add on to the pentatonic scale. Thanks Sean
Always happy to help!
You are always telling people to keep rocking it out. You keep rocking it out Sean.
This is nice. I've been trying to focus on root on 1st and 2nd string stuff. This is so good for seeing inversions.
Step 1. Learn how to play a guitar,
Step 2. Learn how to play rythm guitar
Michael Stratton
exactly what happened to me 😂
Toots With a T I just cracked it! Look up an e minor backing track and play the shape he showed you in however order you want and you will be soloing I just did I always thought I just didn’t understand soloing but I just did it, look for the track with BB king on it and mess around, your welcome ;)
Step 1.5. Learn to spell rhythm,
So damn true.
This is a good explanation on diving into combining scale patterns to start playing more interesting leads!
so simple, so nice, and it sounds great. thanks for opening my eyes to the fretboard. It's beautiful.
Sean, we all appreciate your efforts and videos!
Thank you for explaining what you are teaching. Instead of expecting me to memorize what your fingers were doing. This is the first video of many I've watched that now I can understand structure a little more and realize that I can build my own solo. And not have to follow a copycat guideline. Or else I will be doing it wrong. I hope that makes sense. I think you just helped me out a lot. I usually hear and feel it. Now I will try to think, feel , and hear what I'm doing. Rythem came easy for me. Leads are not easy at all. Yet
Wow thanks man I really love the way you teach
I saw someone ask Jack White one time how to "play lead", he said start with 2 or 3 high (bottom, thin LOL) strings and add the rest one at a time. For a '1 liner' I thought that was a cool answer! I've been giging for ~50 years and never do single string lead stuff, well except for some bending, pull off, hammer on little riffs that just happen. LOL With the lock down stuff and your inspiration I've been trying to learn more... old dog new tricks thing.. 8) Thanks much Sean!!! --gary
Good idea mate.
Im not a good lead player but I jump into leads by using the caged cord system. If I can see the alternative chord shape i use those as a landing point. Then use triads.
But this new idea seems so much easier👍
Wow! A light bulb moment for me! Such a great lesson!
I'm most inspired to make some my improvised solo, while playing any famous solo from other guitarist, many times I just stop suddenly at some point and just start playing something similar in different direction where my mind is leading me, and I'll get at least couple nice usable licks or phrases, and with a little work even whole solo.. Only so called problem is to determine which key is it, to know where I can use it..most of my solos are A and E key, in dorian and pentatonic scale most often or just start from that keys, it's ok to change keys sometimes if it sounds good together in longer solo, but now I'm focused od D minor pentatonic mostly, I want some sad slow solo lol...it's important to play other people solos if you want to learn soloing, simply gives you ideas, backtracking is also very important
good lesson, this shortens the thinking before getting stuck into a solo
I like to play the minor pentatonic scale on the top two to three strings in two to three positions on the neck. Mostly the A, G, and E shape pentatonic scale shapes. Play about 3-5 notes and pause and then play another 3-5 notes and pause. Use double stops, bends, slides, hammer ons, and pull offs. Play notes out of sequence. Just jam. Have fun with it. Improvisation is all up to you. If you know some licks, throw some of them in there or make your own. There are no rules in music.
Dovydas truly is a legend at it
I never knew what people were talking about before now when they said stacking notes and the 3 notes per string comments. Now it makes sense
Your videos make me instantly pick up the guitar and play.
So cool to hear!
It's the lesson that i have wanted to know for a long time. It's really good. I Like your teaching so much.
Thank you so much for this video, I'm a guitarist in a 3 piece band
Writing our own stuff and you have helped me so much. 👍
The Jett Blackhearts That’s cool. Just watched one of your UA-cam vids, four kicks. Pretty good well done
Wonderful! Thanks!😆🎶🎵🎸
This is pure value m8, thank you so much 👌🏻😤
Very good and fantastic vod.thanks.
Very nice. Been struggling how to put some phrasing together when trying to play some lead. This really makes sense to me. Thanks
Yep.. that was a great bit of content Sean. Nice!
Very cool lesson, as always. Great ideas to quickly sound like a better player. Thanks Bud.
What an excellent lesson. Something to start adding right away.
Gorgeous guitar!
Thanks Cheeseburger! I'm lovin it!
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@@seandaniel23 I see what u did there ;)
Thank you for the tips, I understood it. Simple and clear but efficient. Keep posting.
I liked this a lot but if I'm not mistaken, that C technically should be a B which is more of a stretch. Still sounds good and it is a very useful idea. I also liked the transition to the 12 fret! Thanks!
You will really improve once you start visualizing the fretboard and your lead playing in terms of intervals.
There is a guy on UA-cam named Jack Gardiner who has an excellent video on visualizing the fretboard in intervals. I encourage anyone who is interested in getting better at guitar to watch this video - or another one that covers the same subject.
You are at the crossroads right now!
Turn left and become another mindless noodler who will eventually get stuck in the dreaded "musical rut" because you can't break free from your shapes.
Or turn right and become the player with infinite possibilities that all sound excellent ALWAYS and lead to never ending musical expression and exploration.
Thanks Sean!
Thanks Dean. Just about where I am at...God be with you friend..
Happy to help!
Loving the big red arrow in the thumbnail! Upping your thumbnail game Sean 👌
It's going to get progressively bigger and redder, too.
@@seandaniel23 😆
That's the kind of tips i am looking for!
I can see you getting a lot of good use out of a Looper pedal in these tutorials you could Vamp or just do some rhythm with an E minor chord and then start playing your pentatonic over it. It's an idea.
"If you want to use your pinky.."
Ideally, you should try to always use the same fingering you would if you were playing the scale normally.
It makes it MUCH easier to go through the different scales within a key when noodling around.
Being comfortable using ALL your fingers when playing will make playing anything much easier. I promise!!
Again, great video!
Great interesting lesson, thanks!
Good one man. Ive been playing since 65...I should be fantastic huh? I AINT. Changed instruments couple times. Banjo, Mandolin, BAss, BAck to 6 string. Well never left it. I have a hard time gtting excite...your video has me fired up. Also I just got one of thoseLava Guitars. Its like starting Over(Remember the John Lennon song!))
Awesome lesson, thanks!!
"The only thing holding you back is your own creativity." That's what's holding me back. I dont have any.
this was a good one! thank you, sean. you made it understandable.
Awesome lesson once again
Happy to help!
That’s a really nice guitar, sounds good 👌
Thanks so much!
Good lesson! Thank you.
Cool looking guitar
Very informative. Thanks
Great lesson 👍👍
Concise and understandable! Great video! Thank you!
At first i thought whats he on but you know what he is right good stuff
Thank you .this lesson really important .👍
Really great stuff, thank you Sean.
I'm not caught up in the three note per string thing. I just learn the where the scales are in the different locations on the fretboard and get your fingers used to finding where the notes are in the scales to develop muscle memory. Interestingly enough I learned more about phrasing from listening to Charlie Parker than any guitar player.
This lesson was fun, thank you.. I'd definitely memorize this sequence forever. I also need a nice leather jacket.
very clear
I like it! Will give it a try.
I'm definitely gonna try this! Thanks for the lesson!👍😎🎸🎶
i have learn a lot with you. thanks
Always happy to help!
I play guitar for a several years, but there's a lot of stuff that I even had a clue that I could do. on the guitar...
e d c . b a g . f# e . . . Oh,.. now I get it! Landings and passings and bears, oh my! You and Dovy are helpin' me out SO much, and I'm workin' on a uku(lele)! Excellent, my main Sean dude! Aloha nui ʻoe! Nā mahalo kahuna haku mele! 🤙 :)
Basically Em is asking a question. And you high E is answering the question.
You know it!
Thanks man
No matter how many beers I have I am always tuned in the key of Nirvana...
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Super best method
Nice one Sean. Thanks, man
Happy to help!
I had to rub my eyes...thought I had double vision!!! LOL!
Cool idea. I sometime mix scaleslike say minor pentatonic with the minor scale say. Not tried this though so something new to play with..
This is a very simple way of introducing someone to playing some lead
Great concept!
Seems to be vital starting point for a novice like me...thanks
Rock it out!
The not being able to finish a can of sparkling water thing really spoke to me. Why can't we finish them?
Right?! Isn't that a weird thing?
I know this is a little older but man this really helped me Sean. I can’t thank you enough, phrasing has been a difficult concept for me but this brought it home. Experimenting with the triad and ending on a different note never occurred to me. Now I feel like I can compose some simple solos because I know when I want to resolve and when I don’t all because of the triad and how it sounds over the chord.
Wow... Loved the video!!! I'm gonna try this today! Thank you very much!😁
Rock on!
Excellent..........Thanks Sean
Sean another great one....! btw I have a question here, the scale you're playing right on top of the regular minor pentatonic is the extension version of the Minor scale rooted on ' A' string...? pls explain ....youre the best guru, you taught music to me !!! love your hard work...
Great question. So there's the A minor scale, and the A minor pentatonic scale (which is the same thing, but only 5 notes instead of 7). The nice thing about the pentatonic scale is it can sound good over a lot of different chords and keys, but the full A minor scale will give you more of a variety (but needs to be used in the right place) Hope that made sense.
thank you
Don't let this go to your head but dude, you are effin' awesome. 😄 I've been the essence of mediocrity in my playing for a long time, and even though I still am, you have a way of teaching that cuts through all the music theory and mumbo jumbo to make playing guitar within everyone's grasp and, to me at least, fun again!
Man thanks so much Dale!
the thing about starting is that there is no end, just keep noodling
Right on!