Surely every novice rock guitarist dreams of learning how to play guitar solo. This, so to speak, is one of the most magnificent moments of this musical genre, which incorporates all the colors and options for melodies and sounds. Today we will understand the theory: let's talk about what a solo is, how it is performed, what you need to know for this.
Sky-high
Our world knows a lot of the greatest guitarists, such as Jimi Hendricks, Eric Klepton, Eddie Van Hallen and others. Listening to their solo, you involuntarily begin to go beyond the limits of being, you feel how you are saturated with this greatest music. Such people really knew how to express their feelings and emotions in music, having achieved this through absolute control and discipline. To open such a gift in oneself is not obtained in one week. Sometimes it takes a lifetime. Learning the basics of solo on the guitar, the young guitarist will feel his inner potential. Over time, this will become more and more apparent in his game. The most important thing is not to be shy of your feelings, which will burst out while playing the guitar.
Workouts, workouts and workouts again
As everyone already knows well, if you want to achieve something, train and improve. In order to play guitar solo well, you need to first learn basic chords. And then you can proceed to more complex options - play with individual notes (enumeration of strings). In rock, the following techniques are most often used:
- Melody - no solo part is possible without it. The most common technique.
- Arpeggio is the reproduction of notes included in chords, not just all at once, but each at a time.
- A riff is a repeatable composition, usually used as the main background. Here you can play as one string or several, or you can generally play the same riff on several instruments simultaneously. The most popular riffs were presented by Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, etc.
- Improvisation is a part of a solo guitar performed by a musician on the fly. Such a game often involves percussion effects, electronic inserts and certain sequences of notes. An improvisation game greatly enhances the effect obtained from the solo. On the guitar, you can combine all these styles (techniques) to achieve maximum originality of the game.
Some more information
In general, when talking about guitar solo, it means that the musician is in a rock band. Most often, the guitarist uses the game with individual strings in his arsenal. Solo on an electric guitar does not have to be performed on one note at all, you can play double notes. The term "solo guitar" is used in rock music to separate this specialization from rhythm guitars and not to confuse them. As a rule, in rock groups, where there are several guitarists, each performs its own separate function. For example, the first plays the rhythm, the second plays the guitar solo. Summing up, we can say: in order to quickly and efficiently learn how to play this method on an electric guitar, you must first learn how to play chords, then by brute force. And then - go ahead, give concerts!