Your playing style

[hifi_killer]

hows your playing style like?

mine is like 70% pentatonics, 25% minor scale, and 5% blues, I dont shred alot

 

[afterdeath]

i'm more into chromatic....... :wink:

 

[sidb12]

Very modal here...

 

[Chang]

I guess this topic is more abt the approach to soloing?

My style is more of singing out the melody which i want, then translate tt onto the fretboard. Most of the time it happens to be a combination of blues/pentatonic/minor and phrygian.

I love to use bends to kickstart on a soulful note, use minor/phrygian mainly for scale runs to build tension and pepper vibratos all over to up the feel factor.

 

[Mobius]

Pentatonics, blues, and now trying to add the mixolydian to my playing.

 

[crozzfire]

pentatonics!!!

 

[hifi_killer]

wah.. all u pentatonics people should do more OMs, dont really hear alot of pentatonics in OMs

 

[TheBreed]

i do it the nike way, Just Do It(aka anyhow whack la)

 

[lppier]

I only know how to play pentatonics and blues haha.. but if you say playing style I would say I'm going for the acoustic guitar guy thing, pple like Dave Matthews, John Mayer, etc...

Pier.

 

[fenderrules]

i like rockin' on the blues scale, with a hint of pentatonic

problem is, i dunno how to use them to make solos like you guys...

 

[Mobius]

Learn alot of licks, after that try and combine into a solo. or dlaod backing tracks off the internet, and practice soloing with them. or learn lots of solos from songs, so as to give u an idea

 

[Kaye]

hmm not a very scale person here, still learning! I'm more of a acoustic person, like John Mayer. Rythm stuffs. And a lil blues. Well, most of the time, jus anyhow whack and come up with weird stuffs.

 

[ShredCow]

I use too much pentatonics... its really boring but ah, trying to get out of the rut of pentatonics. Been trying modal stuff and playing with well, wrong notes. Dissonance is a thing of beauty.

 

[amberbrew]

pentatonics for me

 

[thor666]

i try to get a melody first. use pentatonics when i run out of ideas or when i gotta improvise, or when i feel the song is "breaking up".

 

[fenderrules]

Learn alot of licks, after that try and combine into a solo. or dlaod backing tracks off the internet, and practice soloing with them. or learn lots of solos from songs, so as to give u an idea

well, i did an improvisation for the song rock and roll queen by the subways. i did this solo:


e |-----------------------------------------------------------------
B |------------------------------------------------------------------
G |---------------------8-10b--------------------------------------
D |---------------8-10---------10-8--------------------------------
A |---------8-10---------------------10-8--------------------------
E |--8-11----------------------------------11-8~-------------------

i used only half of the blues minor scale throughout the whole song and nothing else. is this okay for a first start? i dont really have good ears and perfect pitch.

 

[hifi_killer]

i think its pentatonics...u didnt use that blue note. \
try to vary with the pattern

 

[unsane]

The Double Harmonic Minor, the diminished, 5th mode Harmonic Minor, Phrygian, The Byzantine, The Snake Charmer, Hirojoshi, Kumoi, Hungarian Minor all see lots of action.

 

[hifi_killer]

woah.. cool. all the evil sounding scale..

 

[guitarman78]

Byzantine?! Whoa .... how about Egypt or Babylonian?

Ok i am more down to earth .... mostly Blues, MixoLydian, Lydian and Major scale. When approching doninant chords, i tend to deviated away to the tensions and altered notes ... which i guess might give melodic minor sounds.

Oh the sound of Lydian ... like flying in outer space ....