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Same bud, But let's not lament the soloes we can't play, rather let's enjoy those from Sammy G and Chris Buck and all the other contemporary greats we have on machines in our pockets
Zakk Wylde once said that guitarists should listen to a lot of southern rock. The reason, I figure, is that classic southern rock bands were masters of motif. Having the ability to cycle through solo themes. Listen to any Lynyrd Skynyrd lead(s). They're full of themes that build on one another. They take the vocabulary of the blues and ride that bad boy home. It's the opposite of random notes really.
I remember reading somewhere that an old man in WA once told Kurt Cobain and Mark Lanegan that they should listen to lead belly because he had “real soul” in his music. They did, and they ended up writing some of the best music in their entire genre! I suppose going back to the roots really does bring the inspiration flowing.
Allman Bros. come to mind as well. The interplay between the styles of Dickey and Duane shaped a good 12% of my natural playing style. Billy Gibbons 22%, SRV 37%, Angus Young 17% and Roy Nichols the remaining 12% 😆 Something like that anyway.
you should make this a series! such a great breakdown on how to make a solo 10x better. i have lost count of how many times i've listened to that solo at the end. just great Mr samurai!
It’s amazing how much better the solo sounds when you make the rest of the track follow along with the dynamics of the solo. I listened to Derek Trucks’ solo from Midnight in Harlem a while back and discovered that the rest of the band contrivutes greatly to the feel and intensity of the solo. Especially the drums in that track really lift the song and the solo to new heights. Guess it goes to show how much better it is to play with other musicians as a lot of the magic happens when you sit down and play together.
Good concepts. Two other ideas - think like a vocalist or horn player. Pause when you breath and get out of the pentatonic boxes. And there are 7 other semitones just waiting for a chance to be heard.
Rivers Cuomo, while not the most technical guitarist, had talked about writing melodic solos by singing them instead of writing them on guitar. Recording yourself humming or scatting a solo idea will result in different ideas than your regular bag of tricks & licks. I highly recommend that everyone try it!
You forgot relentless sweep picking. That's the only way to make any solo better. Just look at Stevie T.. it's ok, maybe you will get shredeemed.. rofl
Good demonstration of turning creative critique into actionable improvements. A lot of solid concepts used, too. There is a lot one can learn from this singular video. Thanks for taking the time, Sammy G!
As much as I'm a big fan of open note drones, in this context, they sounded more like you played it sloppy. The glitch slides also felt quite out of place to me. Great concept that I'll definitely use though! Thanks Sammy G! And speaking of local sports teams, Valour sucks, Forge rules!
Genuinly extremely helpful. I'm a beginner, and just incorporating the idea of not always ending on the root note, and varying the phrase length has helped me think about phrases in a much better way. Instantly improved my improv! I actually already had noticed I was playing the root note too much, so for a 12 bar blues, I'd just try to end on the root note of each chord, but that still ends up sounding boring, so just landing on any note, regardless of the chord, makes it sound more interesting, and then accentuates the resolution when you finally do land on the root note.
Im just taking notes and you can find it useful: 1. All the time you have to leave a space (Alonso reference) 2. Lacking continuity (use a motif) but don't over use it imo 3. Directionless, go to a higher part for example (maybe also change to brighter pickup) to give it a sense of direction 4. Don't end all phrases on the root 5. All phrases of one bard sounds boring flair: (these things when possible don't force) - add style to phrases (slides, legato, etc) maybe think how another guitarist would play that lick - incorporate open string - add intervals 6. Use an interesting backing track
You really need to work on your vibrato - strength as well as placement. Like every time you end a run. Sounds like something is missing otherwise. Funny to see someone coming off as an instructor who hasn't got that figured out.
Sammy G this is one of your best videos, u are a really good teacher not because of the technical things, but the approach, the mind and ur words speak to us all ❤
im at the point where i can play really good and can play solos pretty fast but I cant make up one in all these songs they are playing up and down the frethboard and going form the 3rd to the 15th freths easily but when I try it sounds terrible the smoke on the water solo its all over the frethboard but I'm stuck over here on the 5th and 7th freths doing minor pentatonic stuff I'm stuck
Neither sounded "better" imo but that second solo has so much character vs the first one. This video could also be called "how to find your voice in soloing" because the first solo sounded like anyone played it but the second could only be ol sammy g.
1:23 this is good for conversation and music i love this advice and yes i do know people that talk to me that way sounds like the samurai knows someone like that too😂
I love how to took a philosophic approach to this lesson. I haven't watched one of your videos for a while, but I have been checking it out since you started doing this. It's nothing I didn't already know, but I want to commend you because I think this will be very beneficial to young intermediate guitarists and I think bass players could learn a thing or to from thim this lesson also. Keep on keeping on! Also, I love the name of your channel(Japanese reference) because I am a sushi chef etc. (Most musicians still have to have day jobs.... ugh). Peace!
To be honest if they (these online RUclipsrs) want the public to pay for the courses they should offer a small portion or a taster so we can see if their style or teaching works. Music Is Win is perfect example, might be a great teacher but his lesson structure and just putting a video with little to work with.
Is it weird that to my ear/perspective the first solo sounds like it was written then played but the 10x better one sounds like it was improvised & then transcribed.
Great video I'd also like to add a few other things. Dynamics also massively help a solo sound better aka hitting notes with different volumes. Don't make the solo more complicated than it needs to be. Get a few ideas and motifs and work around them otherwise it looses it's way and get boring fast. Finally add different rhythms and timings to your phrases. A great solo to me should DEMAND your attention and retains it, once you do that it's a great solo in my opinion. For example in comfortably numb the final solo isn't flashy but it tells a incredible story and the way Gilmour uses phrasing and his sense of dynamics and rhythm takes it to the next level. He does one amazing phrase where he goes down the pentatonic scale in an off beat way and repeats the same idea again a phrase or 2 later and it's brilliant.
This tips are not exclusive to the guitar, I used this tips to soloing sex and it felt 10x better, the bending was a little bit painful, but the releaf after feels amazing
This video is what I needed to help with my soloing thanks man gonna check out the website and you earned a subscribe from me which is not easy to achieve!!!
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"I am going to play you a solo I am not proud of" precedes to play something I wish I was at a level of being able to do
I know it’s bad when his “boring solo” sounds 10x better than a solo I can come up with 😂
You're not alone lol
For real. 😥
that just means your solos will get 100x better
Bro same. I’d say his is closer to 1000x better
Same bud,
But let's not lament the soloes we can't play, rather let's enjoy those from Sammy G and Chris Buck and all the other contemporary greats we have on machines in our pockets
Zakk Wylde once said that guitarists should listen to a lot of southern rock. The reason, I figure, is that classic southern rock bands were masters of motif. Having the ability to cycle through solo themes. Listen to any Lynyrd Skynyrd lead(s). They're full of themes that build on one another. They take the vocabulary of the blues and ride that bad boy home. It's the opposite of random notes really.
I remember reading somewhere that an old man in WA once told Kurt Cobain and Mark Lanegan that they should listen to lead belly because he had “real soul” in his music. They did, and they ended up writing some of the best music in their entire genre!
I suppose going back to the roots really does bring the inspiration flowing.
Allman Bros. come to mind as well. The interplay between the styles of Dickey and Duane shaped a good 12% of my natural playing style. Billy Gibbons 22%, SRV 37%, Angus Young 17% and Roy Nichols the remaining 12% 😆 Something like that anyway.
They sound so good because half of the solos from southern rock bands were written by the studio musicians "The Swampers"
you should make this a series! such a great breakdown on how to make a solo 10x better. i have lost count of how many times i've listened to that solo at the end. just great Mr samurai!
Take his course
It’s amazing how much better the solo sounds when you make the rest of the track follow along with the dynamics of the solo. I listened to Derek Trucks’ solo from Midnight in Harlem a while back and discovered that the rest of the band contrivutes greatly to the feel and intensity of the solo. Especially the drums in that track really lift the song and the solo to new heights. Guess it goes to show how much better it is to play with other musicians as a lot of the magic happens when you sit down and play together.
Good concepts. Two other ideas - think like a vocalist or horn player. Pause when you breath and get out of the pentatonic boxes. And there are 7 other semitones just waiting for a chance to be heard.
Rivers Cuomo, while not the most technical guitarist, had talked about writing melodic solos by singing them instead of writing them on guitar. Recording yourself humming or scatting a solo idea will result in different ideas than your regular bag of tricks & licks. I highly recommend that everyone try it!
There's that 'bird!
You forgot relentless sweep picking. That's the only way to make any solo better. Just look at Stevie T.. it's ok, maybe you will get shredeemed.. rofl
Can anyone identify this firebird model? I absolutely adore it and want to look into buying one!
Good demonstration of turning creative critique into actionable improvements. A lot of solid concepts used, too. There is a lot one can learn from this singular video. Thanks for taking the time, Sammy G!
I love the way you compared soloing to writing, it made a lot of sense like that 😎
This is the first time I thought a non-reverse Firebird has looked good... Kudos. Also, great video!
As much as I'm a big fan of open note drones, in this context, they sounded more like you played it sloppy. The glitch slides also felt quite out of place to me. Great concept that I'll definitely use though!
Thanks Sammy G!
And speaking of local sports teams, Valour sucks, Forge rules!
love all your content Sammy G! watching you really makes me want to pick up a guitar, and my room is full of them!
the “bad solo” isn’t horrible it just lacks emotion and style
Genuinly extremely helpful. I'm a beginner, and just incorporating the idea of not always ending on the root note, and varying the phrase length has helped me think about phrases in a much better way. Instantly improved my improv! I actually already had noticed I was playing the root note too much, so for a 12 bar blues, I'd just try to end on the root note of each chord, but that still ends up sounding boring, so just landing on any note, regardless of the chord, makes it sound more interesting, and then accentuates the resolution when you finally do land on the root note.
I'm literally eating a sandwich with cheap bread and I'm very offended
That firebird is AMAZING!!!!! Congrats!!!
Yeah true, you can check it out in a video that Trogly's did with SammyG
Even the "i am not proud of" solo sounds epic :D
Im just taking notes and you can find it useful:
1. All the time you have to leave a space (Alonso reference)
2. Lacking continuity (use a motif) but don't over use it imo
3. Directionless, go to a higher part for example (maybe also change to brighter pickup) to give it a sense of direction
4. Don't end all phrases on the root
5. All phrases of one bard sounds boring
flair: (these things when possible don't force)
- add style to phrases (slides, legato, etc) maybe think how another guitarist would play that lick
- incorporate open string
- add intervals
6. Use an interesting backing track
What about using Stinkface? Pretty sure you made a video about how Stinkface (and I would think rock moves too, a step further) makes solos better. 😜
You really need to work on your vibrato - strength as well as placement. Like every time you end a run. Sounds like something is missing otherwise. Funny to see someone coming off as an instructor who hasn't got that figured out.
That solo is my personality
Sammy G this is one of your best videos, u are a really good teacher not because of the technical things, but the approach, the mind and ur words speak to us all ❤
I think you just described typical conversations my friend and I have at work while everyone else is left completely lost...
no all you have to do is just get a really expensive guitar
That solo in the beginning was better than any I’ve played lmao
Awesome to see you playing that Firebird you found in the video you recently did with Trogly’s Guitar Show, that guitar looks and sounds incredible
“If I incoorperate the diatonic major-“
Guitarists * * run screaming from the room * *
What does this mean
Need another tip for being able to play better solos? Play sad slow music & your solos over it will be 100x easier. 😂
You can play technically well all day long, but you are incapable of provoking a feeling.
im at the point where i can play really good and can play solos pretty fast but I cant make up one in all these songs they are playing up and down the frethboard and going form the 3rd to the 15th freths easily but when I try it sounds terrible the smoke on the water solo its all over the frethboard but I'm stuck over here on the 5th and 7th freths doing minor pentatonic stuff I'm stuck
Bro Jimmy woke up watched samurai guitarist videos all day and went to sleep is me most days
Idk why but that solo reminds me of Hill Climb
Neither sounded "better" imo but that second solo has so much character vs the first one. This video could also be called "how to find your voice in soloing" because the first solo sounded like anyone played it but the second could only be ol sammy g.
I use to have a hamster that liked coffee and sport , but it caused him gout what are the chances.
Sounds like a blind melon song. One of my favorite bands
They go from talking about sports to their gout???🤣
1:23 this is good for conversation and music i love this advice and yes i do know people that talk to me that way sounds like the samurai knows someone like that too😂
I love how to took a philosophic approach to this lesson. I haven't watched one of your videos for a while, but I have been checking it out since you started doing this. It's nothing I didn't already know, but I want to commend you because I think this will be very beneficial to young intermediate guitarists and I think bass players could learn a thing or to from thim this lesson also. Keep on keeping on! Also, I love the name of your channel(Japanese reference) because I am a sushi chef etc. (Most musicians still have to have day jobs.... ugh). Peace!
What kind of Firebird is that?? It looks awesome
Solo that im not proud of
*Continue to cook the whole 5star meal"
Your boring solo is dream of many😻🥺🙏🙏🙏
Turned off vid when the bad solo was prob going to take me as year to learn
Yeah putting your fingers on the fretboard seems to make my solos better as well
It did become a lot better of a solo
I thought stevie t just made childrens videos now
If I want to make my solo 10x better I’ll get somebody else to play it. And also write it.
lol your bad solo is already 10x better than mines
The tittle is pretty unique , unleashing the beast that been sleeping 😂
The Hunk of Clunk
I liked the first boring version a lot more that the better ones.
i think you're thinking too much aboot it
Listening to that "bad" solo pissed me off ngl
Do the same video but for rhythm guitar.
First Solo: 0:17
Final Solo: 7:39
The Stevie T level bad is funny 😂
Well somebody got a rare Firebird
Yeah. Nothing's worse than hearing about someone's gout issues.
Like an overly caffeinated Henry VIII.
Great rythm sound ! What gear did you use ?
What do you think of denny dias' stream of notes solos in steely dan?
My problem is psychological because I cannot let go… that last jam sesh showed
Then when I let go I can play Tetris but …
nice
Oh mann... what Gibson is that?
That firebird sounds sweet!!!!
“When telling these little stories, here’s a good idea, have a POINT!”
-Neal Page-
Planes, Trains, and Automibles
Me: I feel like you've overplayed the first motif a bit.
Sammy G: adds 1 more at the end
Me: Perfection!
I never had a hamster as a child.
Coffee or cocaine? 🤣
To be honest if they (these online RUclipsrs) want the public to pay for the courses they should offer a small portion or a taster so we can see if their style or teaching works. Music Is Win is perfect example, might be a great teacher but his lesson structure and just putting a video with little to work with.
Isn't this literally what he's doing?
@@robinr22 that's what I was thinking, too
thank you
Nice guitar
What’s that guitar
Double stops!
What guitar is that
Such a great lesson
Love the point about improving the arrangement of the rest of the track. An awesome solo + a terrible song generally just equates to a terrible song
What's Ghoat ?
Nice guitar.
Is it weird that to my ear/perspective the first solo sounds like it was written then played but the 10x better one sounds like it was improvised & then transcribed.
First
Yes
Man, just when I thought I was finally getting good at guitar your most boring solo is the “10x better” to what I play
First
Great video I'd also like to add a few other things. Dynamics also massively help a solo sound better aka hitting notes with different volumes. Don't make the solo more complicated than it needs to be. Get a few ideas and motifs and work around them otherwise it looses it's way and get boring fast. Finally add different rhythms and timings to your phrases. A great solo to me should DEMAND your attention and retains it, once you do that it's a great solo in my opinion. For example in comfortably numb the final solo isn't flashy but it tells a incredible story and the way Gilmour uses phrasing and his sense of dynamics and rhythm takes it to the next level. He does one amazing phrase where he goes down the pentatonic scale in an off beat way and repeats the same idea again a phrase or 2 later and it's brilliant.
Sounds like Mike Campbell had an influence on the lead track. Nice!
Great advice!
Also, I would have liked to hear about that guy's hamster.
This tips are not exclusive to the guitar, I used this tips to soloing sex and it felt 10x better, the bending was a little bit painful, but the releaf after feels amazing
Gibson Firebird's are the red-headed step-children of offsets and I mean that in the best way possible
That thing where the first solo he's not proud of is better than 50% of the solos I'm doing on my best night.
"Let me play you a solo I'm not particularly proud of"
Proceeded to play the solo I can never write even in my dreams
Talking to Tim Pierce's people sammy! Nice.
This video is what I needed to help with my soloing thanks man gonna check out the website and you earned a subscribe from me which is not easy to achieve!!!
Man, that Jimmy story made me so sad. I know those days. Jimmy is depressed, needs some help.
that first solo is amazing mine sounds like i just picked up a guitar 1 minute ago 😭
It's incredible how you turned something so boring and characterless into something beautiful
The difference between before and after having space is amazing
My son loves the look of the Blue gibson
BTW, I'm so loving the tone of that guitar.