5 Pro Secrets to Improve Your Solos
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Do you want to improve your guitar soloing capability? Well, so do I. We all do. But it's not a "single" thing you can work on, there are multiple elements that bring it all together.
Here are a few that I have found to be essential.
Check out this playlist for in-depth coverage of these tips: • Soloing Lessons
00:00 Thesis
00:28 Introduction
01:14: Patreon Plug
01:59 Lesson
11:54 Wrap Up
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Highly recommend that anyone on the fence give Patreon and the Studio a shot. I’ve been a member for about 3 months and can’t recommend it enough. There is a super genuine and curious community there and Chris is around to guide and help everyone on their own guitar journeys. My playing has improved markedly in this time because I have people to bounce ideas off, share videos with, and ask questions of, and most of all provide ACCOUNTABILITY. Chris’s weekly assignments always give me something new to work on and are often a healthy challenge.
Great video Chris still, I’m still working on those bends!
Thanks Mike, I appreciate the plug, very much. It's also so great to hear that The Studio provides not just content, but real support.
@@curiousguitarist oh totally. I pulled some overtime practice last night so I could get a video together for the triad drill from this week. Wouldn’t have done that if I didn’t have the community to engage with. I’m going for the difficult tier 💪
I totally feel that Chris is a psychologist for guitar players. Every video I feel like I am lying on a fainting couch and being guided to figuring out all my problems.
...so let's talk about your relationship with your parents...did they play Min7(b5) in the house when you were growing up?
Hahaha!!!
When your lessons sounds like good songs. Wow. 🙇♂️
I’m a Patreon patron of Chris’s Studio. For less than $100/yr, I can talk to Chris and his students all year long. It’s been a lifesaver staying connected. Give it a try.
(slides Mark P a $20...)
@@curiousguitarist 😂
I swear....anytime I get in a rut with my playing, I just go back and watch a lesson from Chris and it gets me inspired again. Dude is an incredible purveyor of guitar knowledge!
So glad to provide inspiration, Brian!
Great video. To add on to this topic, 2 things I think get overlooked when it comes to soloing is dynamics and rhythm. Dynamics being the changing from fast to slow playing, or aggressive to calm and vice versa. Rhythm is the ability to play in and out of pocket, along with accenting notes on the right accents of the beat. Us guitarists spend so much time learning shapes and patterns of scales and chords a lot of the time we neglect the other side of music. Thanks again for the video!
Fantastic context! I cover these elements in-depth as well in the playlist
The sequencing is a good topic to discuss. I know Alex Lifeson used sequencing and motifs in his riffs and solos.
Exactly! Here's a vid on that subject: ruclips.net/video/gZP2nFjgauQ/видео.html
@@curiousguitarist Thanks!
I think I’ve learned more from just a handful of your lessons than anywhere else, ever! Thank you Chris. Will be joining you soon. To late, I’m in!
Welcome aboard, John!
Chris thanks for this video and pointing us in the right direction with soloing. Looking forward to working on these concepts this weekend! Keep rockin! BTWvery Fruschante/Gilmour -esk vibes from that first solo.
Wow, thanks man, that a huge compliment for me. Glad you're enjoying these!
Another excellent lesson 🤙🏻 I’ll be watching this one a few more times today !
I sure did enjoy putting it together! Glad you liked it!
Wow. Really fantastic tips. Especially loved the means of finding the additional notes outside the pentatonic.
Sweet! Once you start to see this stuff, you cannot UNsee it! Glad you enjoyed it!
Another great lesson and definitely one to watch at least twice!
Glad you enjoyed it, we're all working to see the light!
Another fascinating lesson. As always I learned something new and reinforced some things I think I knew.
Beautiful, that’s music to my ears!
Another great lesson thank you so much buddy I can’t tell you how much you have improved my playing
That kind of news is the wind under my wings friend!
Great tips! and techniques ! to become a great soloist!
Great lesson
Chris is a great teacher !
Thanks Matt.
Fantastic lesson, thank you Chris 🤘
Of course, Matt! Glad you enjoyed this one. There's SO much in there I could do five more videos and still not cover it all!
This one was so good! Tnx Chris!
You bet, Sina. Glad you enjoyed it.
Great work Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it, Jeremy!
Very solid. Thanks man!
Glad you liked it, Josh!
Another great lesson Chris! Looking forward to Modes Mastery in the Studio! AND Denver this weekend!
Are we staying busy or what!? Just wrapping up Triad Mastery in time to host the workshop, then directly into Modes Mastery!
I need a new coffee machine...
@@curiousguitarist ☕
Finally signed up for your studio, looking forward to dive into the deep end and get that fretboard freedom goin'.
So great to have you on board Tian! I'll see you in there!
Once again, mahalo for the great lesson!
Glad you enjoyed it, Kevin! Thanks for all your support!
Great video. Very helpful. Breaking down what made that funky riff sound so good would be helpful.
I just through that in there :) I'll be breaking down that riff for a muting video I'm doing next week for Patreon.
Another good video. Thanks!
You bet, Tim.
Getting better every day- thanks!
That’s great news! Happy to help!
Ok, this lesson was amazing!!!!! Thanks Chris!!!!
My pleasure, Andrés!
Great vid, more like this. 👍
On the way!
would love to support you but right now food seems to be my biggest concern along with a roof or bridge or a branch from a tree over my head. You are the closest thing to a music teacher in my 60 years of life and 40+ years of playing guitar that I ever had the pleasure to follow,. unfortunately Chris I can't but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate every minute you put online for everyone here. Honestly right now my guitar is missing strings so i have to noodle around the missing ones , which from what i have learned from you has become so much easier. thanks dear much lov jen
I totally understand all of that, and I appreciate you being here, Jen. Don't fret!
@@curiousguitarist wait what you want me to go fretless ,geez I can barely play now , 🤣🤣🤣just kidding awe thanks💜
Very Well explained 😊
Thanks a lot 😊
Good stuff!
Thanks, Timmy
Just anther great lesson for sure but I will have to watch this numerous times to get all that info. But for sure I ve seen other vids from you doing the same thing in another key. I find when I try doing this approach I am out of text, meaning I am behind the chord or late its difficult developing the timing a spacing. But if you dont fail one can never succeed. Its coming slowly I either get lucky sometimes or my mind an consceintration is at a peak level. Thanks again learn so much about the fret board from your gold mine for guys like me.
The cognitive load that accompanies ANYTHING complex that must be deployed with accurate timing always seems too large initially. The more small success you experience, the faster that will fade away.
Love this frustration moment at the END 😅
Filming these can be...well...challenging for me at times :)
Pay attention to his target notes D ,A ,E ,B they are fifths away from each other and once you get off the D note the target notes are 3rds of each chord in the chord progression (Genius) great lesson !!!
Nice! That’s great context, targeting the 3rds and the roots is the primary mechanism for building cohesive melodic lines. There’s a lot after that too, but spending time targeting R and 3 is the first hill to climb!
Glad you enjoyed this one.
That’s a fantastic chord progression sir! 😄😄😄yessssss
I had a feeling you, specifically, might enjoy it!!
@@curiousguitarist yes sir that was an awesome lesson 🙏🏽
Those outside notes are what separate players. Great video dude!
Thanks JD!
Another great video/lesson! Same chord changes for Bryan Adams ‘When You’re Gone’ 👍🏻
Indeed! Glad you enjoyed this one Scott!
:) Thanks Chris!
You are welcome Audrey!
Another great lesson...thanks Chris. I had some trouble finding the other videos you mentioned in this video...the only one that came up for me was the video on bending. Any ideas on how to access them?
If you open the playlist they will all be in there. If you click the link it will open the bending video, then look to the right, the other 10 videos should be listed there.
here's the link again if you run into trouble, Kent: ruclips.net/p/PLunQlxH_jM1QyNYvGg_Ib9rwmUCZklcNz
Im a patreon also and Chris is definitely the best teacher ive seen.
Thanks for the plug, Jesse! And for all your support!
Ah finally got to see this after a week of being preoccupied elsewhere ;)
The ending made me giggle!
:)
great ending!
Thanks :)
Great 👍👍
Thanks for the views and the visit!
"I'm not going to blather on about theory; I'm going to get right into soloing." 😍
Hi have you got x course?
That’s the best one to watch after this one please you did say one but I co not find it.
here you go Paul: www.patreon.com/chrissherland
hey Chris. I love the non-theory theory explanations
Ha! can't slip those by you eh Ed?
@@curiousguitarist you're a sneaky one Mr. Grinch 😀
But in all seriousness, you have a special gift
@@edhencher780 thank you. Hope you’re making it through that storm!
@@curiousguitarist hey Chris. We got hit pretty hard. We are all safe. Power us out, likely for a few days. Internet is spotty
Can you please tell me your amp settings ..or what your setup is for this video . That sound is straight stunning
Thank you! I’m plugged into a Yamaha THR10, on the “crunch” preset with a little EQ and some echo/reverb added. All directly from the Yamaha.
Thanks Chris, just curious how the G/B fits into the Dminor key at time 2:41? Thankyou!
G is the IV in the key of Dm, but that B note moves really nicely as the bass note from the previous chord, which is C. That 1/2 step movement is not "expected" and adds some interesting color to the progression.
@@curiousguitarist Cool! Thankyou
Great! Now I just have to watch this 32 more times. (not kidding)
Sounds about right...I usually need 32 times for anything to soak in :)
Im working on writing a B Section for the Playing Lyrically solo. This helps a lot!!!
Next weeks video, how to make cool guitar player faces.
I totally want to hear that when you're done Chris!!
@@curiousguitarist I'm almost done.
Bending? Like in Rikki Don't Lose That Number? LOL Such a perfect example.
This is out of my pay grade...for now. I've watched your video to learn the fretboard around the circle of fifths and that is my goal for the next X weeks. Or X months. However long it takes.
Full confession, I started studying music after 65 years by studying piano. And I'm geeking out on theory. My daughter loaned me her ukulele, I also now have a low G tenor uke as well as a baritone ukulele. But I have to use a strap for the baritone since I suffer from bad shoulders. And that prevents me from moving on, a guitar or bass is out of the question. So I'm learning the baritone and tenor. But why aren't there black keys on the fretboard?
So I'm doing the next best thing...I put strings on my piano. I take a postit and stick it on the keys to represent each string and practice my left hand technique. Since most of the notes are high, I had to move my piano bench to get my left hand in position. It really is helping for intervallic recognition.
Please feel free to make a video to show that idea, you have ze best guitar videos on the internets and you would do it justice.
BTW I hope you are playing pain free. I'm a Chiropractor that passed my Swiss Boards, but then suffered a shoulder injury. I live with a FURS syndrome. This caused me to change my techniques, and also to become quite the shoulder specialist. And the shoulder is the most misdiagnosed area in the body, or not even recognized as a source of the problem. I have a theory for musicians that suffer from neural dystonia, and anyone in Western Switzerland can contact me.
I have a video with my exercises for stabilizing and strengthening the low back, as well as for shoulders and hands.
Oh My Aching Bach
Merci, Chris.
Thank you, Lawrence. Can you link your video on shoulder and back exercises? I would be interested in taking a look, thanks!
Now…where did I put those post it notes? 🤣
@@curiousguitarist I don't think You Tube likes leaving links, but if you search the title...
Oh My Aching Bach
For the first time watching your videos here, and usually just enjoying the music and watching my friend's vids and silliness, but having no sense it will help me singing, that part about the target note and making a conscious choice to go outside there actually made sense and gave me an idea why I do what I do as a vocalist when I'm singing and want to use that to grab more emotion from something. I don't think about it, I just do it...but this is I think telling me why I'm doing it. Hmm. Am I misunderstanding the concept and it only applies to a multi note instrument, where the notes combined are creating what you're getting at...whereas my voice is a one note instrument at a time...?
It's all music, and while the choices might come from different places, the emotion "proves the rule" once we sing (no matter what "tool" we're using).
@@curiousguitarist Yes, Mr. Sherland, Sir. Thank you. Before I sit back down though...all that, yes, got it. But I was trying to figure out if I understood what you were teaching and how it might apply to what I do. Hehehehe :P Like, though I'm not particularly thinking about it, is there a reason the note I choose to sing works or doesn't work because of the way you're talking about finding those "outside" (correct term?) notes, and might I actually think about it more and make better informed choices to improve what I'm trying to do. So: Outside notes; All about the notes combined? Chords. Or also about the melody of the notes in sequence? I mean...I can go to a major or a minor and affect the emotion that way. I can do a key change and affect it. But I don't think those are what you're discussing here. I think this is another thing I am not aware of, or wasn't.
very Santana ish using the D Dorian it that right ? sorry i have been absent...jen
Yeah, Carlos' middle name is "Dorian" (not really) :P
Hey, I'm boosting my guitar skills with Heisenburg!
Ha! The uncertainty principle suggests that we can never know, exactly, where our current capability is. So sustained effort over time is the only way to maintain forward momentum.
How's that?
@@curiousguitarist
All joking aside, I love that.
Perseverance will not deliver immediate results, will deliver long-lasting results. Yes, I agree.
You know, man, that bending thing was really an epiphany for me. I knew it and all, but not until you bent flat and sharp did it register for me how critical it is. I’ve always been a slob about that. Not anymore!
Yeah, sorry that was so painful, but...as my father said many times..."it had to be done"
:D
First time I'll accept an apology from you, Chris. 😂 Yeah, that hurt...😢
Haha! Well it was pretty bad :)
Could spend a month just on this one listen
The hardest part about soloing is to forget about soloing and just speak with your guitar.
Yes I agree. Once you have a good amount of capability, THEN you can close your eyes and speak with it!
Hey I have paid for your Patreon channel but everytime I go it wants me to sign up and pay. I've already paid!!!
I'll check on that right now Dan. I'll send you an email.
😂😂
Great lesson