Guitar solos

I am a new member to guitar tricks and have been playing guitar for about six months now and I am doing very well I think. I now all the basic major, minor, and 7th chords and I can switch quickly and smoothly between them and can play major, minor, 7th, m7, and major7 barre chords on 5th and 6th string roots. I can play the lead, rythm, and guitar solos from songs like Back In Black-AC/DC(play first guitar solo only), Thunderstruck-AC/DC, You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC, Holiday-GreenDay, More Than A Feeling-Boston, and more. I was woundering if anyone would give me advice on what begginer guitar solos to learn(iv only been playing for 6 months) or what teqniques to learn on the guitar( I can already bend, vibrato, pull-off and hammer-on, alternate pick and unison bend.)

Staying within that genre...Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were my teachers. ZZ Top also has some leads that are fairly easy to keep up with and figure out by ear (except for some of Billy's pick squeals...he's the master of that!).

Originally Posted by: R. Shackleferd(except for some of Billy's pick squeals...he's the master of that!).

I dunno, I think Zakk Wylde might have him beat.

6 months wow... that sounds like good progress..
I am one month 1 ha ha

did you have a teacher?

Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonI dunno, I think Zakk Wylde might have him beat.

Ok then, let me rephrase...he's a master!

Originally Posted by: AC/DC_rocksI am a new member to guitar tricks and have been playing guitar for about six months now and I am doing very well I think. I now all the basic major, minor, and 7th chords and I can switch quickly and smoothly between them and can play major, minor, 7th, m7, and major7 barre chords on 5th and 6th string roots. I can play the lead, rythm, and guitar solos from songs like Back In Black-AC/DC(play first guitar solo only), Thunderstruck-AC/DC, You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC, Holiday-GreenDay, More Than A Feeling-Boston, and more. I was woundering if anyone would give me advice on what begginer guitar solos to learn(iv only been playing for 6 months) or what teqniques to learn on the guitar( I can already bend, vibrato, pull-off and hammer-on, alternate pick and unison bend.)

Tapping and sweeping, my man. There are several lessons on this site about those techniques. Especially with Schmange (tapping) and the Jonezter (sweeping).

Yeah, tapping and sweeping are invaluable skill, and its better to start now cause itll take a while to perfect those. But about solos, "Knocking on Heavan's Door" by Guns n Roses. Both of the solos are pretty easy and shouldnt take much time to learn. And if your into Green Day, there remake of Operation Ivy's song "Knowledge" has a pretty awesome solo in it, you should definatley give it a try.

Just to add a long time players feel into this...
All the scales and leads etc, that you learn are stuff that is meant to be kept in the back of your mind as you're playing your own material.
For instance, when I'm playing or writing a lead, I'm not thinking about scales at all. I'm thinking of the melody and how I can emotionally effect the listener throughout the solo or the entire song. While I'm doing this, I'm using many years of scales and so forth to be able to construct a solo or guitar part.

I guess the short version here is, learn a whole bunch of scales, solos and songs. Then use your years of experience to play well constructed melodies and leads.

I suggest that anyone interested in learning pinch harmonics, aka squeals, should listen to Roy Buchanan, he was the first guitarist to ever use pinch harmonics, which was in the late 1950's. Roy appeared on a show in the early 70's, called The Worlds Best Unknown Guitarist, and he probably was the best electric blues player.

They are all right buddy, try all their advice. My only suggestion is dont forget to purchase Troy Stetina or John Petrucci's rock discipline. They are very comprehensive and enough to make you a complete guitar player, Those two books cover all the techniques you want to learn. From Legato to tapping they are all there.