To prepare for this webinar please download the Blues Backing Track – Key of A MP3
You’ll also need the movable blues scale PDF TAB
Your homework is to record audio or a video of yourself improving a guitar solo over the backing track. No more than 2 minutes long and include at least one of the 4 Essential Lead Techniques that are taught in the lesson.
Enjoy and keep on jamming.
1:40– Introduction to improvising guitar solos
5:47 – Where is improvisation good?
7:38 – The blues scale
12:37 – Learn to listen first
15:50 – What does it mean to improvise?
18:32 – How to start creating things that sound like music?
22:30 – Techniques to use to make your playing sound more creative
23:30 – Technique no. 1: Rests and holding notes
26:00 – Advice on picking directions
28:40 – Technique no. 2: Slides
30:38 – Technique no. 3: Bends
31:25 – Tips on bends
35:15 – Technique no. 4: Hammer-ons
36:20 – Technique no. 5: Flick-offs
37:07 – Technique no. 6: Vibrato
Improvising guitar solos – COURSE LINK