Rock Funk Flavoring: How to Add Rock Phrases to a Funk Solo
Rock funk flavoring is one of the most effective ways to create contrast inside a funk vamp solo....
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Jazz Flavoring: How to Upgrade Your Fusion Solo
Jazz fusion flavoring is one of the most powerful upgrades you can make to a fusion solo. Most fusion players already have the speed, the tone, and the groove locked in....
Rock Flavoring in a Stones-Style Blues Guitar Solo
Rock blues flavoring is not something you pour on top of an existing blues solo. It lives inside the decisions you make before you play a single note: your tone setting and your pick attack....
Hybrid Solos: How to Blend Two Guitar Genres Into Your Playing
Hybrid solos are where the most interesting guitar playing lives right now. The old record-store bin labels, blues, country, funk, jazz, rock, used to mean something distinct....
Guitar Scales vs. Solos: Break Free from the Patterns and Start Making Music
Picture this: You’ve mastered the patterns, your speed is up, and your calluses are well-earned. But when it's time to step into the spotlight and hit that back...
The Art of Creating Flowing Guitar Solos
You may have started developing your soloing skills as a guitar player by building a vocabulary of licks and phrases to string together into a solo. While this ...
Take Your Lead Playing To The Next Level With These 5 Blues Guitar Soloing Lessons
Exchanging musical ideas in a jam setting is one of the best ways you can grow as a guitarist. It allows you to pick up ideas from other players, work on your t...
9 Melodic Blues Guitar Soloing Lessons With Marko Karhu
If you just take a moment to ponder it, you can probably think of a couple of your favorite guitar solos. The ones you are thinking of are probably your favorit...
Improve Your Improv With These 6 Blues Guitar Soloing Lessons With Josh Smith
As guitar players, we have stories to tell when improvising lines. A captivating guitar solo communicates your emotions as a story with a starting point, a midd...
Step Up Your Solos With These 5 Jazz Guitar Soloing Lessons
As guitar players, we are always trying to improve on the skills we have learned. And, one the best ways to learn new music and improve your performance is to p...
Improvise Powerful Lines With These 3 Chord Tone Soloing Guitar Lessons
Honing into chord tones is arguably the most important melodic technique when it comes to crafting a solo or improvising. But, what are chord tones? Chord tones...
Transform Chords Into Soaring Melodies With These 5 Melodic Guitar Soloing Lessons
Chords are a great source from which you can pull melodies and solos. After analyzing the notes in a chord, we can stack them on top of each other in a unique w...