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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
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Posts: 8,365
07/25/2021 2:31 pm
Originally Posted by: darickmendes

Good day , may I please ask for tips for how to learn guitar solos from songs ? Some are really fast and there is a learn to memorize

You learn one note at a time until you've learned all of them. And then you practice them until you can do it in real time. That's really it. Playing lead guitar solos requires a whole lot of repetitious practice until you've got those techniques solidly under your fingers.

The good news is that once you've learned a lick or two, you can see they are all just patterns from little melodies, scales & chords. And they get reused & repeated over & again. Same for whole solos by any given guitar artist. They have a common vocabulary of ideas they use & reuse & reconfigure.

This article is about how to start playing solos.

https://www.guitartricks.com/blog/how-to-play-a-guitar-solo

This collection of tutorials is about how to learn to improvise.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/learning-to-improvise

Hope that helps!


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