Great video. I am no great Lead player, but I play what I can. I have no interest in being Yngwie Maalmsteen. Always learn and play what you like, it spurs you on to get better at it and you enjoy it more.
My suggestion: don’t listen about how to play lead from a lead player, listen to how a drummer does fills. Scales are baloney. Josh Homme of QOTSA made up his own damn scale. It will sound good as long as you end up at the root note. Very few non-guitarists are impressed by how technically brilliant or how fast someone plays, they don’t care and too many notes begins to sound like noise: the blues greats like Hubert Sumlin, BB King, Albert King and Albert Collins understood this. Obviously Jimi knew this, Jimi played what he felt and couldn’t have cared less for scales. Sing, sing with your hands. Lastly, see all those places your fingers go when you make a chord? All of those places are places you can for sure bend notes at for a lead. Again, listening to other lead guitarists will at best unconsciously undermine your originality and have you (poorly) duplicating them and at worse discourage you.
Wow! Like wow! Thank you for sharing! Soooo much good advice there. It will take me ages to unpack it all & take it onboard. Love ending on the root & bending notes in the chord. Priceless! Top, top stuff! Can I steal them for my short vids? 😉
Great video. I am no great Lead player, but I play what I can. I have no interest in being Yngwie Maalmsteen. Always learn and play what you like, it spurs you on to get better at it and you enjoy it more.
Thank you for watching! It feels like having a celeb watch my vids! Thanks for the advice, and don't put yourself down, you're a great player!
@@GuitarsAreHard we are all in this together mate
My suggestion: don’t listen about how to play lead from a lead player, listen to how a drummer does fills.
Scales are baloney. Josh Homme of QOTSA made up his own damn scale.
It will sound good as long as you end up at the root note.
Very few non-guitarists are impressed by how technically brilliant or how fast someone plays, they don’t care and too many notes begins to sound like noise: the blues greats like Hubert Sumlin, BB King, Albert King and Albert Collins understood this. Obviously Jimi knew this, Jimi played what he felt and couldn’t have cared less for scales.
Sing, sing with your hands.
Lastly, see all those places your fingers go when you make a chord? All of those places are places you can for sure bend notes at for a lead.
Again, listening to other lead guitarists will at best unconsciously undermine your originality and have you (poorly) duplicating them and at worse discourage you.
Wow! Like wow! Thank you for sharing! Soooo much good advice there. It will take me ages to unpack it all & take it onboard. Love ending on the root & bending notes in the chord. Priceless! Top, top stuff! Can I steal them for my short vids? 😉