Are you ready to learn how to play lead guitar on the fly? These guitar improvisation exercises will help develop your improvisational skills.
Improvised guitar solos are made up on the spot. It may sound impossible to do, but it becomes natural once you cover your bases. Start improvising today with these exercises!
Here’s our The Wind Cries Mary Tab and lesson. It’s a classic Jimi Hendrix ballad has some wonderful guitar parts. Technically it’s not a hard… Read More »Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix
In music, phrasing is the grouping of the notes of a musical line into distinct phrases. This “Phrasing” video talks about how playing leads and melodies (or phrases) is similar to speech patterns.
Fig. 1: Simple Alternate Picking Exercise
Fig. 2: Alternate Picking Variation
Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique, used only by pick users, that employs strictly alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing. If this technique is performed on a single note at a high speed, then it may also be referred to as tremolo picking.Read More »Alternate Picking
Beyond The Box When playing music we can use scales as a guide which will tell us what notes will work best for a particular… Read More »The Right Wrong Notes
Difficulty: Intermediate Intro Here’s an acoustic challenge for you from the Clapton MTV Unplugged session. It alternates bass notes on the bottom strings with melodic chord… Read More »“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” by Eric Clapton
Riff Rundown Difficulty: Intermediate This is the famous solo at the tail end of We Will Rock You by Queen. Use your volume control to… Read More »“We Will Rock You” by Queen