Looks like I'm going to doing one of the one things I truly hate in life....playing the guitar. One of my old, old bands may be reuniting for Spring Break for a few shows. Its a long story, but I am playing lead guitar for this. And I got a question. How in the hell do you do a guitar solo. I don't even know where to begin. So maybe so pointers using some bass terms would help.
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Guitar solos
- Thread starter JWC
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Ummm,try to remember to stay within the spotlight. make sure your hair is done right.... lol I cannot help you really mate cause i'm not a guitarist but many solos contain pull offs. Pull out some tapping etc.
Hell i dunno. feel sorry for you.
Merls
- Up the scale the fastest you can
- Down the scane the fastest you can (Bend a lot / Hammer on a lot)
- Try to pull out some articificial harmonics
- A little taping
- A little noise/larsen with vibratos
- pause
- redo everything said above in another mode
...
Oosp, very important, don't forget to sweat, make funny faces (pretending to suffer), look at the sky while bending, stomp your foot, move backward and forward, headbang, cry, use your teeth, use your left hand from ABOVE the neck, pretend to change your onboard EQing/Volume knobs at least 3 times during the solo, switch pickups 2 times, press on at least 4 different stomp boxes, use a Wha, make sure you are out of the beat, if there's another guitarist you know in the public : look at him right in the eyes thinking "You see, I'm better than you ...", if you fumble somewhere : play loud distording chords with "Townsend like" arms rolling, jumb, walk the "Angus/Chuck Berry" way, get on your knees, roll on the floor, pretend to make love to your guitar, put it on fire, break it against the drum set, footkick your amp(s), throw the remains of your guitar to the audience then stage dive.
That should do it.
- Down the scane the fastest you can (Bend a lot / Hammer on a lot)
- Try to pull out some articificial harmonics
- A little taping
- A little noise/larsen with vibratos
- pause
- redo everything said above in another mode
...
Oosp, very important, don't forget to sweat, make funny faces (pretending to suffer), look at the sky while bending, stomp your foot, move backward and forward, headbang, cry, use your teeth, use your left hand from ABOVE the neck, pretend to change your onboard EQing/Volume knobs at least 3 times during the solo, switch pickups 2 times, press on at least 4 different stomp boxes, use a Wha, make sure you are out of the beat, if there's another guitarist you know in the public : look at him right in the eyes thinking "You see, I'm better than you ...", if you fumble somewhere : play loud distording chords with "Townsend like" arms rolling, jumb, walk the "Angus/Chuck Berry" way, get on your knees, roll on the floor, pretend to make love to your guitar, put it on fire, break it against the drum set, footkick your amp(s), throw the remains of your guitar to the audience then stage dive.
That should do it.
Just curious... why do you "Hate" playing guitar? There's nothing inherently wrong with the instrument.
and why does the word "hate" come up so often in your posts?
Will C.
and why does the word "hate" come up so often in your posts?
Will C.
Big Wheel : I don't hate playing guitar at all. In fact, I also play guitar a little.
I was just goofing around.
I was just goofing around.
