Your first solo

[Fallen]

Hey.. Wanted to know what was your first solo that you guys played. Any tips on how to improve? I'm still a noob. Cant play that good. I want to learn, but nobody to teach me haha.. And you know the thing to "exercise"your fingers thing? That most guitar shops sell, is it good? And how to shred like a pro.

Hope you guys help out a noob like me

Thanks

 

[namle]

my first solo i ever played was smoke on the water

easy solo to manage

how to improve?

all i can say is PRACTICE MORE!

 

[jeremyrozario]

1st solo i ever learnt was that acoustic solo from john mayer's your body is a wonderland

anw if you wanna improve, i can tutor you, juz pm me, i'm sorta giving free guitar lessons

 

[NewGuy]

Haha... I also noob... can tutor me?

Seriously sucks in playing...until now, can't seem to get the hang of it...

 

[strats]

uhmm, don't cry-GnR or might be alwasy with me always with you. you want to shred like a pro? take a metronome, practice your scales everyday. do quarters,eights,sixteens,triplets,seq of 4,seq of 3,shuffle 8s,straight 8s. i'm also sorta giving free lessons(or try to guide people along their journey).

 

[Fallen]

Wow Help is there for people like me. But damm no axe yet. Waiting for pay day to buy. BUT once i got one, i'll be meeting u guys soon

Thanks

 

[shreddedsweeper]

u got the exercise thing finger? i started learning guitar together with my friend, he told me it pure useless, he got it. hmm

anyway do you include intro under solo? if its my very very very first solo i start learning, it was srv voodoo chile solo (nt the intro). The one with hamers on and so on. I start to learn that after i can play penta scales quite well, and the solo was in that box. Of course lar, at that point, my hamer on sounds like muting :lol: and yar i gave up on that solo for awhile, but still the first solo i learnt

 

[skink83]

Usually I think making sure your foundations is solid is the most important step. If you have pretty good timing, a good sense of rhythm and solid strumming, then playing solos would be the next thing. While most want to shred at some point, perhaps praticising on scales and playing simple lead melodies would be a better focal point than speed. It would probably bring you further, especially when you want to create solos with feeling and expression. The motive is to understand what to play in a solo than just playing scales up and down super quickly.

I started by playing simple melodies of songs on the radio. As the radio played a song I would try and figure out what the melody is. That way I kill two birds with a stone, learning how to play lead and training my hearing as well.

The best way still, is to have proper instruction. Since two softies have offered their help, haha its all in your hands bro.

 

[Fallen]

shreddedsweeper, i did wanted to buy that thing, but had second thoughts
any tips on how to muscle up the fingers?

strats, i can play basic cords and such, only problem is my pinky finger. Its not as good as the rest. Kinda slow.. I dont know what is quarters,eights,sixteens,triplets,seq of 4,seq of 3,shuffle 8s,straight 8s and so on and scales too

My first solo was Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication

 

[crozzfire]

my first solo was one of the easiest solo i've ever learnt..wake me up when september ends by greenday :lol:

 

[strats]

quarter note you would be playing a note for every beat of the metronome. eighths? same as quarters but you would be playing 2 notes for each beat. sixteenths you would be playing 4 notes per beat. it's hard to explain here on the forums, hit me with your msn add and i'll see what i can do.

 

[clayedhead]

stairway to heaven. Am pentatonics!

 

[daryl]

my first was... hotel california! It's quite easy if you take time to go learn. Rather lengthy.

 

[clayedhead]

e intro of hotel california seems more dificult than e solo. haha

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

Haha.. my first 'real' solo was indeed 'stairway to heaven'... and it was really the starting point for me from then in terms of approaching my soloing style (which until this day is severely rooted in pentatonics, but I do mainly blues-based stuff so what the hey).

How to beef up ur fingers? crush coke cans lah. also play 12-string guitars ehehhehe.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

stairway to heaven...

in a very differnt fingering from all the tabs out there

 

[detroit_red]

Mine was Smells like teen spirit!

 

[haziq]

nice, my first one is I believe in a thing called love- the darkness..

 

[TequilaSunrise]

nice, my first one is I believe in a thing called love- the darkness..

ditto.

 

[Gr3y]

Zakuro - Dir en grey (macabre)