Basics, Bending, & the Blues: Learn How to Guitar Solo
This is a must-have primer for Electric guitarists to develop their solo playing skills. A carefully graded course that builds technique step-by-step, Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 is perfect for both adult electric guitar beginners and children 12 and over.
Gradually building skills with scale patterns and exercises, slides, hammer-on, and pull-off exercises, this course develops both your fretboard ability and picking security. EGSS1 includes a clear, step-by-step approach to developing the electric guitar skill of string bending. Using this skill, players learn to combine all techniques into licks to build speed.
And, most important of all, EGSS1 contains lots of realistic solos that are perfect for developing players. These are all based on familiar blues progressions and have accompanying MP3 audio recordings as part of the digital download.
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What Will I Learn?
Hammer ons/pull offs
Practice your hammer ons/pull offs and get them even and clear every time!
Pitch perfect bending technique
Get a professional sound by mastering your bends with exercises to get perfect bend pitching.
Licks - get em fast!
Combine techniques like bends and pull offs to create licks and practice them until you can do them at high speed!
Put it all together with blues guitar solos
Combine all these techniques into full blues guitar solos and learn how to put everything together!
βIβm really excited to see the Electric Guitar Solo Style series come to fruition. Book One is an excellent starter for new Electric guitarists; Iβve seen many students over the years get fantastic results using these techniques - I canβt wait to share them with everyone. β
Comes complete with 34 MP3 recordings of exercises and guitar solos to play along with!
Get your guitar tone, timing and feel just right by playing along with recordings of each exercise, lick, scale or song.
FAQ
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This book is designed for beginner to intermediate electric guitar players who already have the basics of guitar technique under control. Players should be comfortable with some single-note picking and able to play the common open-position chords with simple rhythms. Itβs best suited for players over the age of 12, or adults with foundational guitar/music skills.
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Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 develops your understanding of todayβs electric guitar styles, and the history of the instrument, by tracing the Blues based development of itβs playing style from the earliest years through to the 21st century. In turn, these techniques evolved into the popular RβnβB / Rock sounds of the instrumentβs heyday, leading to todayβs blended style. The Blues came first and gave the electric guitar itβs core techniques that form the foundations of a wide range of modern popular music.
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The exercises focus on building lead guitar skills through the core techniques of scale patterns, alternate picking, hammer-on, pull-off, slide notes, and string bending. Each technique is presented in clear, progressive steps and the recorded samples guide you to the intended music outcome. At each step the solos combine the just presented techniques into familiar sounding music.
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Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 features a blend of notation with TAB, but you donβt need to be a traditional music reader to begin this course. Everything is explained as you progress through it. Whilst familiarity with basic notation, timing and TAB will give you a bit of a head start, if you read the text box on each page that presents new material you will learn all you need to know to work on that page.
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The Electric Guitar Solo Style books are structured differently to other commercially available titles. Unlike other Lead Guitar guides that focus mostly on just scales and connecting patterns across the fretboard, EGSS integrates all techniques with full music examples that demonstrate how those techniques create music. The presentation of bending techniques, and the accompanying strength-building cliche exercises are unique to Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 and 2. This course will develop your ability to a higher level, and give you a clearer view of style than other similar looking books provide.
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Get the best possible start on the guitar with a clear, step by step learning pathway: Itβs the MGT Beginner Bundle from author, educator and composer Michelle Nelson!
Includes our bestselling beginners rhythm guitar book, Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1, full of tips and tricks to make chord changes fast and easy, allowing you to play complete songs fluently within the first 10 pages. Weβve seen hundreds of students over the last 20 years get a great start on the guitar with these exercises, and now you can too!
Then, learn all the basics of lead guitar with Electric Guitar Solo Style 1, full of all the essential guitar soloing techniques so you can play riffs, solos, licks & the blues in no time! Included with both books are over 80 mp3 audio recordings to get your tone and timing just right.
Nothing will get you playing whole songs on guitar faster!
Starting out on the guitar? Thereβs 2 main aspects of guitar to work on - Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar. This bundle has both covered!
Master your riffs and lead guitar techniques with Electric Guitar Solo Styles 1 while growing your chord knowledge and strumming with Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1.
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Whatβs Included?
Electric Guitar Solo Style 1: Learn lead guitar - bending, blues, and the basics. Learn all the guitar soloing tips and tricks you never knew you needed!
Electric Guitar Solo Style 2: Take your soloing skills to the next level, master scales across the fretboard, and play guitar solos across genres, including Blues, Jazz, Funk, Surf Guitar, Rock Shuffle and much more.
Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1: Learn to effortlessly change between all the most important guitar chords & learn basic strumming, arpeggio, and fingerstyle patterns. Itβll have you ready to play the songs you love in 10 pages or so!
Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2: Master your bar chords, memorise your root notes across the 5th and 6th strings, and learn about the development of electric guitar styles, from Rock, Blues, Punk, Reggae, Fusion and more from across the decades!
Modern Guitar Chord Styles 3: Get funky, learn jazz, bossa nova, gypsy jazz, walking basslines, and more! Get to know complex chord harmony and test your rhythm skills with this advanced level book.
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