Originally Posted by: teleman925I am the Lead Guitarist/Songwriter in my band "The Vestance". Our band is kind of a mix of Trust Company and Slipknot. I've come up with tons of cool progressions, riffs, appregios, and what not, but i cannot make a good guitar solo. I need advice on what makes a good guitar solo and what is required to make it tweak out and sound good. Please help me.

teleman925

Disregarding the mechanics of a solo. The best way that seems to work for me is to take the song I'm trying to make a solo for and listen to it over and over.

Grab the CD player and walk around doing your normal activites with the song playing, then start humming what you think would be a nice solo over the top of the song. Grab your guitar and try to mimic what you were humming. That works for me, but may not for you.