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The art of creating a tantalizing guitar solo is not solely about scales, arpeggios, or technical skills on the fretboard. Of course, these are all important tools to master, but a truly memorable solo moves the listener by telling a story.

In The Electric Storyteller, Ariel Posen introduces a wide array of creative techniques for constructing compelling, engaging solos over a variety of feels, tempos, and keys. Here are 11 free videos from the lesson, so you can start on your journey to improved soloing. To view the full course, check out Ariel Posen’s The Electric Storyteller on TrueFire!

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Knowing the Fretboard

Here we focus on being comfortable with knowing the fretboard. The idea here is to break out of being stuck in 1 or 2 positions that we tend to live in.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Boogaloo – Overview


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For this boogaloo in C#, we’ll be focusing on pentatonic based melody that can be repetitive but use it in as many different places on the fretboard as possible, while still implementing all the other approaches we have already talked about.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Boogaloo – Performance


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In this performance, we’ll be focusing on pentatonic based melody that can be repetitive but use it in as many different places on the fretboard as possible, while still implementing all the other approaches we have already talked about.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Boogaloo – Breakdown


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Let’s break down the performance and focus on some of the themes from the solo. We’re focusing on using the 5 notes of the pentatonic in as many different positions as possible and more.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Boogaloo – Comping


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Now let’s talk about different comping approaches that can be used for this track.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Boogaloo – Comping Demonstration


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Now that we’ve talked about some different comping approaches, let’s put them in action over our boogaloo track in C#.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Putting It All Together

On the last lesson, we’ll now take everything we have focused on and try to put it all together!

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Donuts F#m Blues – Overview


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We go over the chord changes to “Donuts” to apply all these techniques.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Donuts F#m Blues – Breakdown


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Let’s break down the performance and focus on some of the ideas that were used in “Donuts”. At this point, we are doing a call back of all the techniques we’ve been talking about already.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Donuts F#m Blues – Comping


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Now let’s talk about different comping approaches that can be used for this track.

Ariel Posen Guitar Lesson – Donuts F#m Blues – Comping Demonstration


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Now that we’ve talked about some different comping approaches, let’s put them in action over our track for “Donuts”.

Digging these free lessons? Check out Ariel Posen’s full course, The Electric Storyteller.