Do you guys know any sites, or lessons. or you can just tell me.

Well Im pretty new. I have a Epiphone Sg, sounds great, when im better imma upgrade that to a Gibson.

how do you design solo's? I mean ive tried and im horrible. [well not horrible but, i wanna learn how to do what angus does, or other nice solo artists]

and need to learn how to improvise. any warmups? or tips. Guess I need to learn more on where the sounds on my guitar is.

Long Story Short, what warmups can I do, to practice where the sounds on my guitar are.


And I wanna learn how to create some cool Guitar riffs/licks, to impress my friends, Im currently in a band [Im Rhythm Guitarist]

Well Thanks-

learn scales and their corresponding chords. Basically what a solo consist of is, the scales that follow the chord progression you are playing over. So if you are playing a simple C chord you can play a C scale, in any form and it will sound good. So learn your scales, and then learn modes. You can find all of this stuff on cyberfret.com

Learn pentatonic scale, its most (like 99%) used scale in solos. And its easy!

I wouldn't say 99%, but you're right - it is very common.

I would recommend learning more than just one scale, though. Knowing only the pentatonic scale will make your soloing very generic and one-dimensional.

Practice your scales to build chops, listen to a variety of music for inspiration, and before you know it you will start hearing songs in your head that you spontaneously made up. Pick up your guitar, and figure out how to play what you're hearing in your head, and voila! You're a hero.

damn you wanna learn solos already, ive been playing like 3 months and still cant make my own solo, i can barely play most solos besides the super easy ones >_>

Good solo info.


This post was edited by MyFinalChance on Jul 16 2008 03:13pm

learn your major scale and how to build chords
If you learn the hows and whys of the major scale, it will be much easier to learn the major/minor pentatonic, natural minor scale, harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale, and the rest of the modes.

for begginer help and great articles, i suggest www.ibreathemusic.com.
Also, suggest cyberfret.com

This post was edited by gomex799 on Jul 16 2008 03:31pm