"Lead Guitar Patterns: Learning To Improvise Your Own Guitar Solos"
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Learning a few lead guitar patterns makes improvising your own guitar solos a fun and easy goal to attain. Many scales used in guitar solos can help us create and improvise complete guitar solos from nothing.
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Learning to play lead guitar
Many guitarists never make it to playing "lead guitar". To be honest, I don't even know if "lead guitar" exists per se anymore. It's kind of an outdated concept from the classic rock period, where every song featured a guitar solo played by the accomplished lead guitarist.
That's not to say that there aren't any accomplished guitarists anymore. Of course there are. There are more than ever before. But the nature of lead guitar has evolved in many ways. One, you don't have to show off everything during a short guitar solo!
If you want, you can shred through the entire song. Bands like Protest The Hero to it all the time...and without having to rely on cliche guitar solos to do it...
Lead guitar techniques have evolved. The emergence of two-handed tapping and sweep picking blows away older guitar solos that remained constrained to the pentatonic blues scale.
Our job as evolving guitarists? To be aware of the changes, but to appreciate the previous eras and learn from everything.
One of your jobs as a lead guitarist will always be to learn improvising. If you can whip out your guitar and improvise a tasteful solo on the spot, you will simply be a more valuable player.
...Learning the lead guitar patterns in this lesson will make improvising easy!
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How to improvise guitar solos
Learning to improvise a guitar solo is simple and there is a process that we follow:
- Learn some written patterns
- Later, put your own spin on them
- Then, change keys and play them in your own way
Once you ingrain these patterns into your muscle memory, they will start coming out subconsciously as you perform. You will have to think about it less and playing just by feel will come more naturally.
Scales used in guitar solos
Yes, you have to know a little music theory to improvise guitar solos well.
Really, learning guitar scales will get you 90 percent of the way there...
...The rest will be knowing how to apply those scales.
Take a minute to review your scales if you need to. It will be worth it.
The scales you should know for many lead guitar phrases are the pentatonic minor scale and the pure minor scale (Aeolian Mode).
Lead guitar patterns
Let's check out a few lead guitar patterns for you to use in your own solos. They will be pretty simple, but the idea is to have some licks that can transition to any key and style.
Here they are now...
Classic lead phrases
This first pattern is a basic pentatonic minor scale bluesy lick. It can be played in any song in a minor key. Our example is shown in A minor. Try moving it up and down the neck using various starting points to get different sounds.
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Pattern 2 is also a little bluesy, making it perfect for any classic rock solo. It can be played in two octaves -- a low version and a high version:
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The third bluesy pentatonic pattern can be used to get you up or down the notes, depending how you use it. You may have heard licks like this in classic rock solos.
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Modern style lead guitar patterns
Many more modern lead guitar techniques step outside the bounds of the pentatonic minor scale and the occasional blues notes. Shred guitar is making a comeback, so play them as fast as your fingers allow!
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