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This site is dedicated to guitar players who want to improve their guitar technique, to add some new chops to their repertoire, to learn guitar scales or improvisation. The exercises inside include the basic craft, skills and techniques of the solo guitar.


 

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NEW! Transposing Licks - A good way to get used to different scales and to improvise easily is by transposing licks. We'll take a simple lick in a certain scale, we'll have it transposed to a few other scales and then, you'll transpose it to as many scales as you wish. A new lick to transpose:

 

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Guitar Solo - Content:

 

  • Practice Schedule - If you really mean to become a professional solo guitarist, here is your practice schedule.

 

Tips

 

Scales

  • Guitar Scales - The classic method to learn scales. Diatonic, exotic and symmetric scales, jazz modes.
  • Scales Step by Step - Learning scales in a few easy steps.

 

Licks

  • Guitar Chops - A few technique exercises to improve your agility, speed and accuracy.
  • Guitar Warm-up - Short solo guitar licks easy to memorize and practice.
  • Guitar Licks - All the lead guitar licks that appeared at "The Lick of the Week". A growing collection of guitar exercises.
  • Essential Licks - The great guitar solos are perfect musical constructions but they always include memorable licks, small music lines that are impossible to forget and that define the style of the soloist. This is a suggestion of the most prominent guitar licks.
  • Transposing Licks - A method of learning scales and improvisation is by transposing licks. We'll take a simple lick in a certain scale, we'll have it transposed to a few other scales and then, you'll transpose it to as many scales as you wish.
  • Famous Solos, Guitar Styles and Guitar Technique - There are guitar solos that will help you progress as a guitar player. There are guitar solos that are simply fun to play. Here is a list of such guitar solos.

 

Improvisation

 

Resources

  • Guitar Midi Files - A large collection of Midi Files. They will help you to study music, extract a drum track for your own use or practice with a "band".
  • Cakewalk CAL Programs - Some programs that will make Sonar users' work faster and easier.
  • Guitar News and Publications - Get the latest news in the business: new gear, concerts, gigs, etc.
  • New Guitar Releases - New guitar music releases, items of interest for any guitar player.
  • Guitar Resources - Other guitar and musical resources including quick methods to learn guitar.
  • The Guitar Solo Quiz - Guitar relaxation. Identify the guitar player by reading a piece of one of his solos.
  • Ringtones - Polyphonic Ringtones and guitar tones for your cell phone - absolutely FREE!
  • Guitar Solo Forum - Talk about everything related to guitar.

 

Lists

  • Memorable Guitar Riffs - Every rock guitar player looks for the perfect little musical phrase that should provide the rhythm and personality of the song. There are riffs that, once you've heard the song, never leave your memory. There are very simple riffs, of only two notes and there are also complex, deliberated riffs.
  • The Most Influential Guitar Players - An open list of the most influential guitar players.
  • Guitar Players at Their Best - An open list of the best guitar recordings ever made.
  • Fundamental Guitar Albums - This is a list of great guitar albums that are fun to listen to and, in the same time, are among those that defined the evolution of guitar playing.
  • The Best 500 Albums Of All Time - At the end of the year 2004, the Rolling Stones magazine published a list of the "Greatest Albums of All Time". A good opportunity for those who want to listen to the music of the past five decades and don't know where to start from and, also, to get an idea about the evolution of the role played by the guitar in pop, rock, folk, country and jazz.

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