[Guitar Lesson] How To Create Better Guitar Solos

Today, you're going to learn how to write better guitar solos. I’ll show you how to use and control dissonance when improvising or creating your own melodies, licks and guitar solos. The best part? These concepts are advanced, yet easy to understand and easy to use in your own guitar playing.
First, I show you how to use the 9th over any chord and make it sound awesome without it sounding like jazz or like a wrong note.
Second, I’ll show you how I use the 7th to solo over chords in a way that makes this dissonance sound like a consonance - so it sounds pleasing and not like you’re playing a jazz tune (not that jazz isn’t cool, it is, but most rock players don’t want to sound like jazz players - I’ll show you how to do this)
Third, you learn how to use the incredible, floating, dreamy sound of the #11th (aka the #4th) to get that great lydian sound and feel by controlling the dissonance.
These concepts will really help you sound more melodic in your soloing and guitar improvisations. They will give you all sorts of new ideas to create your own cool sounding licks by using the non-chord tones (the 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th).
Want to get your guitar playing out of the rut, and finally play guitar the way you want? Get started with Breakthrough Guitar Lessons today: tomhess.net/Guitar
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[@dictatorrich3412]

I find that I've done a lot of these techniques in my playing, but never knew they had a name or a concept behind them. These lessons help me realize what exactly I've been doing, and that allows me to milk them for even more than I've been doing, so thank you for that!

[@jazznotes3802]

Mini lessons in digestible amounts, that are actually useful and usable straight away.

[@cpm5689]

Love this! Thank you Tom Hess! Best guitar teacher on the planet!

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Thanks and you're welcome :)

[@jaymeeboer2886]

This lesson is so good, I need to watch it again! Thank you Tom Hess!

[@tylerlee549]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge Tom

[@Bricklinsv1970]

This guy can get a lot out of just a few notes.

[@ozman6602]

Wow that was awesome thanks

[@AnchoredSoulSband]

I love this idea

[@jimbaker2565]

Top video, really good info

[@dhaneshs131]

One more awesome lesson Tom Hess... This keeps getting better and I'm excited for the detailed lesson in my student account

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Thanks Dhanesh! :) Glad you liked it again!

[@cominooculto]

You are the best guitar teacher alive you know that? Thanks man again amazing lesson. 🙏💪

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Thanks! My pleasure :)

[@mikephilippov8735]

Love this! The 9th is my favorite :)

[@sourpickle9097]

Thank you so much. This is so cool

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

You're very welcome Hannah!

[@renejohnkerkdyk5006]

Very nice phrasing elements. So easy to use and so expressive!

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Thanks René, glad you like them! :)

[@wansukteeha7052]

Great lesson love it .
Can i use the 13 also for rock?
Thanks man

[@danweiler4293]

There are some really cool phrases in this video. This gave me some good ideas to work with. :)

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Great Dan! :)

[@Eskil.]

So generally using a consonant pitch to set up a dissonant one seems to make it "fit" better? That and playing the dissonant pitch with conviction (phrasing, maybe articulate it harder etc). I appreciate the tips on specific notes to try a lot, like going from 5 - 9...This gives me a much better approach than just trying random combinations. Thank you!

[@A20Y11]

Wow, so many cool solos here. I guess you could cut this video into pieces and make a few songs from that :)

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

:) Thanks Alexander

[@user-xq1uj4cu1c]

Is it possible to make notes that aren't parts of the scale sound good? For example, if I solo over the C chord, and I want to use notes like D#, G#, etc. Is it possible to make them sound good? If yes, I would love to watch a video about this. Thank you in advance.

[@theophilusrengma8926]

Help ! Confused !
I am habituated in playing the first note of a Pentatonic scale with an "UPSTROKE" going from the top to bottom , While coming up I start with a "downstroke" , i kinda got used to it.
Now outside the pentatonic, when i try to play any 4 note/string or 3 note/string i am more comfortable using a "DOWNSTROKE" first. But i find difficulty in doing a 2 note/per string starting with a "DOWNSTROKE".
Is it because im playing the pentatonic scale starting with an UPSTROKE that i am not able to play 2 note/string outside the pentatonic starting with a DOWNSTROKE ?
Or is it with the Synchronization thing ??

[@aloksingh-ei8zl]

Where can we find backing track ?