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How To Play Lead Guitar
By Masni Rizal Mansor
Many newbies are fascinated by the
way lead guitarists are blazing through a solo and keep wondering
how they can do that. They just can’t understand how these
people figure out which notes can would sound right before
playing them. The following article is aimed to show some
perspective on how to learn lead guitar and begin to make up your
own guitar solos.
The Blues Scale
What many beginner guitarists who want to learn lead guitar do
not know that improvising doesn’t mean just playing random
notes and hoping they will sound great together. Before you can
learn lead guitar, you should know that professional guitar
players usually draw their solos from a scale, which they are
using as a template for improvisation. The blues scale, despite
the name, is actually a scale used very often in all guitar solo
styles.
How to Use It?
Try practicing this scale forwards and backwards, while using
alternate picking and make sure you play each note evenly and
cleanly. After you got this right, try to play each note two
times before you get to the next one. Make up different ways to
play the blues scale to challenge your playing skills.
Play the blues scale so that the root begins on the letter name
of the scale you are trying to play. For example, if you want to
play a C blues scale, you’ve got to find the note C on the
fretboard and start the scale from that note.
Improvising
Once you’ve become familiar with the blues scale, you might
want to take up some theory lessons and learn more on the
different positions of pentatonic and blues scales. However, you
can get to play a lot of great stuff just by using the single
position explained above, so start practicing on making up your
own solos before you memorize tons of scale positions.
Once you’ve managed to learn lead guitar basics, you can start
improvising. The concept is fairly simple: all you have to do is
string together some licks from the blues scale that sound good
together. However, when you try to do it, you’ll realize it’s
actually more difficult than it sounds. You might want to get
some soloing lessons for beginner guitarists that want to learn
lead guitar. Accesrock.com provides some good lessons.
After you did some practicing, you should visit the Home for all
Guitar Lovers website that shows several guitar licks. You can
try to memorize some of these and use them in your own solos.
Don’t get frustrated if you play rather badly at first; if you
like what you’re doing, it will get better over time.
Masni Rizal Mansor provide tips
and review on acoustic
guitar, blues
guitar and electric
guitar.
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