How To Create Guitar Solos: Guitar

In the early 1700s, Bach's chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of 'common practice' harmony and voice leading. And by virtue of their sublime beauty, musicians continue to perform the chorales to this day. The four-part texture of the chorales can make their performance on guitar ? with its fingering limitations ? somewhat problematic. But by sometimes thinning the texture to three or two parts, and sometimes inverting the lower parts (allowing the alto or tenor to temporarily serve as the bass), we've created easy-to-play classical guitar solos that capture all the interest and beauty of Bach's original compositions.

Learning to play scales and arpeggios and other people's solos can be very interesting indeed, but learning to create a coherent, vibrant and impressive solo all on your own, which, in addition, fits the context perfectly, is much more exciting, and this is exactly what we strive for here. This coursebook will not simply teach you the necessary tools for melody writing (there are enough other courses available for this), but it will teach you the construction basics needed to build your own top-class guitar solos. The increasingly challenging pieces will be addressed in a simple and playful manner. For each of the 14 (4-, 8- and 12-bar) backing tracks you have a series of4 different solos of varying difficulty at your disposal, bringing the total to 56. The solos within a series feature the same basic structure, which is melodically, rhythmically and technically upgraded from one solo to another. Put simply: The first solo is elementary and easily accessible, while the fourth is much more demanding. Yet this does not mean that only the fourth solo is perfectly structured. You may rest assured that every solo in this coursebook is genuine and worthy of its name, whatever its degree of difficulty! On the data disk (the mp3 audios and mp4 videos) attached to the coursebook you will find demonstration videos for every single one of the 56 solos (first at actual, then at a slower playing speed), as well as their corresponding extra long backing tracks that will allow you to fully unfold without fear or restraints./ Etude / Guitare

For this unique lesson Fernando Perez composed an instrumental piece titled Jazz Manouche which encompasses many gypsy jazz guitar techniques.Besides teaching you how to play this exciting instrumental Fernando willexplain how to understand this style of music in order to create your own compositions in this style. You will learn:Different techniques i.e such as playing 'abanico' - a flamenco technique very useful forfingerstyle guitarPlaying ornaments on arpeggiosFingerpicking with your index middle and ring fingersStrumming a perfect groove for Jazz ManoucheStrum variations Breaking down basslines chords and melodies in order to know how they work Positions for harmonic movementsOriginal ideas for turning your guitar into a Jazz band and taking solos for guitar bass or even drums

Do you wonder why lots of practice on scales and arpeggios hasn't made you feel fluent and creative when soloing' If so, then this book is the missing link for you! Line Games is an organized series of practical studies for the development of single-note guitar technique and jazz vocabulary simultaneously. Many examples are transcribed from the recorded solos of great jazz guitarists (Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Joe Pass, etc.) and then the book gives you the tools to develop complete fluency in creating similar lines on your own! Randy Vincent's Line Games is a serious, well-conceived book on jazz guitar. It has a tremendous amount of useful information which can be truly helpful to guitarists seeking thorough knowledge and training in jazz music.' ' Kenny Burrell Topics Covered Include: Basic six-note scales commonly used by the jazz greats. How to use all of the chromatic notes to make playing inside the chord changes sound more interesting and melodic. Triad pairs for modern-sounding lines, as used by all the great players from Coltrane on. Exercises that will give you the tools to create many interesting chord extensions from a few simple arpeggios. How to build long lines across many chord changes. How to use thematic development for more cohesive solos. Fingerings often given to aid in getting these lines under your fingers. Plus much more! 156 pages. More Endorsements: This book is probably the most complete explanation of linear improvisation as applied to the guitar that I have come across. Randy Vincent goes into his subjects, which include a novel take on hexatonic applications, chromatic neighbor tones, and various scale forms and arpeggios, with unprecedented thoroughness. It is also refreshing to see the emphasis on thematic development, and I like how some of the great recorded guitar solos are often used as illustrative examples. I highly recommend it.' ' Ben Monder Randy has come up with another Winner. This is one of the most comprehensive studies I have ever encountered concerning single line improvisation!' ' Vic Juris With all the books on jazz improvisation available I didn't think it was possible to find one that offers a new perspective but Randy Vincent's Line Games does just that. It's a great book! There are many real- world examples of players using the archetypal bebop hexatonic sound and many examples of ways to practice and utilize the sound. In suggesting ways of practicing and using the scale Randy gets you started, but it's up to the reader to strike out on their own ' in my opinion the best way to really grasp a sound or concept. There is a whole lot of material here and I'm looking forward to working with it for a long time. Thanks, Randy!!' ' Bruce Saunders With the plethora jazz guitar books on the market today, one must sort through dozens to find one that yields the results of a tried and true method for learning to play jazz as applied to the guitar. I was pleasantly surprised to find a new book that I feel to have such qualities. This being the jazz guitar book written by Randy Vincent called Line Games for Sher Music Co. Inside, you'll find dozens of examples, explanations, techniques, and the application of the jazz language employed by all the great jazz guitarists we know and love. Great job, Randy!' ' Henry Johnson

Learn how to solo like the masters! The ultimate practice book for serious jazz guitarists! The Cellular Approach is a practical method for developing the ability to create convincing jazz solos in a wide variety of playing situations. It takes actual jazz lines recorded by master players and then slices them up into small “cells” that can be re-combined into longer lines to fit almost any harmonic situation.This enables the player to improvise his or her own lines that sound just as interesting and melodic as the masters without resorting to simply copying others. Fingerings and string choices are often given too making it particularly valuable toguitarists who want to actually master their instrument.There is a complete discussion of how to break out of diatonic-derived lines by using the Cellular Approach to create “side-slipping” and other intervallic lines — creating ultra-hip solo phrases in the style of modern masters such as Pat Metheny Michael Brecker and Herbie Hancock.Finally the cell concept gets transcended as twelve tone rows in the style of Mike Stern and others are explored as well as lines derived from “23rd chords” — for the adventurous that are interested in paving a way into the future.

?Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player a fingerpicker a country flavored soloist - and he?s one of the finest players we?ve heard in years... His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense innatemusicianship unfailing human and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous loving touch... He?s a monster player with chops galore great ideas and anencyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences.? Guitar Player Magazine Buster B. Jones is a master of hot fingerpicking guitar solos. He has combined his love for the styles and techniques of Chet Atkins JerryReed and Merle Travis to create an original and exciting approach for fingerstyle guitar. In this series of lessons Buster presents and teaches guitar solos that he plays in the woodshed as well as on stage. Eachinstrumental has evolved from its basic form to a complex arrangement featuring melodic variations chromatic rolls rhythmic licks and lyrical runs. These instrumentals will challenge the talents of any intermediate to advancedstudent.

500 Smokin' Country Guitar Licks. If your country guitar picking lacks the twang of the great Tele and electric fat-bodied Gibson players of days gone by, then you've found the right book! 500 Smokin' Country Guitar Licks is designed to help you build the skills needed to crank out the honky tonk sound heard from Texas dance halls to the streets of Bakersfield. The licks are broken into stylistic categories, such as the country shuffle, honky tonk, boogie, steel guitar sounds, chicken pickin', cajun style, truck driving songs, train songs, the Bakersfield Sound, etc. Musical concepts, such as pentatonic scales, 3rds, 6ths, and adding chromatic and blue notes, are presented to enhance your enderstanding to the point of creating your own licks. Licks are strung together to create solos that play over 19 of the most commonly found chord progressions in country music. Each solo is performed with a full band on the accompanying audio tracks. Fancy kick-offs and endings are presented in addition to the licks and solos. You'll soon be picking in a way that would make Ernest, Hank, Buck and Merle proud!

This jam-packed set features over 70 lessons on four DVDs with iPod-ready video tabs for every lesson on the DVDs full band studio tracks to play over interviews behind-the-scenes video photos and more!Rusty Cooley was named one of the top 20 fastest shredders of all time and has been an influence to many guitarists Mark Tremonti and John Petrucci. Rusty teaches his unique fretboard visualisation through shapes patterns and years of modal knowledge. This DVD includes lessons from Fretboard Autopsy Level 1 and 2.Jeff Loomis shares his six and seven string Guitar secrets for creating the lead masterpieces that get him mentioned in the same breath asSatriani Gilbert and Malmsteen. This DVD includes lessons from Extreme Lead Guitar.Oli Herbert is a founding member and primary songwriter of the melodic metal band All That Remains. His lessons give aspiring guitarists insight into how to craft original songs and how to rock the house playing them on Lead Guitar. This DVD includes lessons from Heavy Leads Rhythms and Harmonies Level 1 and 2.John McCarthy has produced hundreds of instructional products and has coached many of today's most influential artists to appear in them. Alexi Laiho Gary Hoey Alex Skolnick Jeff Loomis Marc Rizzo Michael Paget Kiko Loureiro and many others have put their trust in John. In this DVD John explores a collection of lead Guitar techniques that will help expand your arsenal and create new ideas for your own blazing solos.This DVD includes John's Lead Guitar program.