Soloing
Any of you have any tips to make better at creating solos cuz i suck really bad at that. i can creat good riffs for like a verse and chorus but when it comes to for the song to have a solo i cant do it. how do i get better?
# 1
Firstly, familiarize yourself with scales and different artists solos, so you have something to create your solos from.
Secondly, just let the music flow man, get into it. I can think of no better advice than that.
Secondly, just let the music flow man, get into it. I can think of no better advice than that.
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# 2
solo-ing is kind of like your style, your voice, so to speak. what i like to do is focus around the melody of the song, if there is one, and make the solo kind of fit the melody. learn the scales first though.
# 3
I go with IH. Think of the way the melody interacts with the accompaniment and go from there. Like, which bits are major or minor, happy or sad. What is the song about are you telling a happy story or a sad one. Then using the melody as a starting position try and embellish using the guitar, hum what you want to play. This will help you visualize (aurolize...is that a word ?) where you want to be and then translating it into notes and scales is relatively easy.
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# 4
Play a melody note write the notes down in order of pitch and number them then shift the notes so that the numbers refer to other notes but the rough relationship between the notes is similar and then work out the melody in this new alternative.
This is a very robotic means of using a process called modal transposition. If you have the fretboard or ear to do it some other way then do so but it might help you get used to the process until you can do it properly!
Lots of neo-classical shredding uses modal transposition. don't use it in excess, it gets samey and dull. Do unexpected things. Bear in mind that what can sound like a mistake to start with can then be made to sound right by choosing later notes carefully.
Mix up fast and slow passages. Pure shred is dull and lacks expression - you can't bend,vibrato, violin or pinch humongous shreds after all. Slow stuff doesn't always impress shred-heads who like the melodies to really tax their abillity to comprehend the passages which speed does. Mix em both and hey.. woooohh!
This is a very robotic means of using a process called modal transposition. If you have the fretboard or ear to do it some other way then do so but it might help you get used to the process until you can do it properly!
Lots of neo-classical shredding uses modal transposition. don't use it in excess, it gets samey and dull. Do unexpected things. Bear in mind that what can sound like a mistake to start with can then be made to sound right by choosing later notes carefully.
Mix up fast and slow passages. Pure shred is dull and lacks expression - you can't bend,vibrato, violin or pinch humongous shreds after all. Slow stuff doesn't always impress shred-heads who like the melodies to really tax their abillity to comprehend the passages which speed does. Mix em both and hey.. woooohh!
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# 5
but its important to know what the note sounds like before you start making melodies (at least thats how i learned it), then you can directly use your brain with the melodies, if you know what i mean. Either way, you'll get to the prize.
# 6