Originally Posted by: ChristopherSchlegel

Originally Posted by: NickFerra

Hi Christopher, I posted a video of me playing yellow Ledbetter and blister in the sun on the listening forum if you'd like to check it out and see where I'm at.

Listening now. Your sense of timing is pretty good. So you have rhythm. :) But you definitely need to work on the lead guitar aspect. The solo in the first song needs better phrasing & solid bending.

1. Phrasing. This is what I mean by playing musical phrases. Not just aimless wandering through a scale like the pentatonic box. :) Learn, invent, play little melodic statements.

2. If you are going to bend a note, bend it up to a target. Don't just grab a note & bend it up some vauge amount. Bend it up to a specific pitch higher.

Any one of the tutorials I listed above is a great place to start building a vocabulary of licks to play. The rock course is a great place.

Build a repertiore of little musical phrases!

I'm mostly a rythem player haha

So I really had no idea what I was doing up there playing lead. I hope the guitar gods will forgive a noob such as me lol

I just looked for the pentatonic scale that the song was in and played whatever haha

I have a lot to learn

I'm not fully understanding phrasing. Did you post a lesson above on phrasing? I'm gonna get to these lessons this weekend and I saved this forum topic on my phone so I have easy access back to it.

Thanks