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Guitar Note Charts: Opening You to the World of Lead Guitar
Guitar Note Charts: So we're at Lesson Three in the Online Lead Guitar Lessons Series and this is the lesson you've really been waiting for: your first lead guitar solo. Up until now we've been laying the basic rhythm guitar foundation groundwork for you to have something meaningful to play a lead against. If you haven't recorded yourself playing the riff taught in lesson two... GO BACK AND RECORD THE CHORD PROGRESSION NOW! Otherwise, let's learn our first lead guitar phrases.
Guitar Note Charts - Ready, Set, Solo!
If you've been doing your reading in the previous lessons then at this point you ought to know what is coming next. Your first solo. But rather than just try to wing-it a la Bill & Ted from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" let's try to organize what notes you're going to play first into the first of hopefully many guitar note charts for you and see if we can make something sound sensible.
Editor's Note: You WILL be able to use the scale below to solo over the Easy Guitar Songs I've selected for you to go with these lessons.
Your First of Hopefully Many Guitar Note Charts
Below you'll see one of many guitar note charts which is meant to be played as a series of individual notes. Up until now you've been playing all the notes in the chord pattern at the same time. Now we're going to play them one at a time. The note chart pattern (called a scale - or in this case a pentatonic or five note scale) begins at the 5th fret on your fretboard. Play each note in succession in both directions on the fretboard and get your ear accustomed to the pattern of tones.
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Lead Guitar Phrases Using The Minor Pentatonic Scale
Once you feel comfortable playing through this scale other lead guitar phrases will be built off of it, but for now only worry about being able to play each note in this pattern up and down the pattern.
Your First Lead Guitar Solo - Make Up Your Own Little Lead Phrases
Now that you're comfortable playing this scale frontwards and backwards it's time to get out the chord riff we recorded in the previous lesson of the Online Lead Guitar Lessons Series (Guitar Chord Riffs). Play the tape, and as you hear yourself playing the chord changes, play notes from the pentatonic minor scale above. Get a feel for which notes sound the best (to your ear) as each chord is played underneath. Lead solos are built off of lead guitar phrases made of notes from simple scales like this one.
Use Guitar Note Charts to Unleash Your Inner Eddie Van Halen
After you've gone straight up and down the scale a couple of times it's time to start varying it a little. Start down the chart, then reverse and go up. Pick just two notes on one string (the 3rd string 5th and 7th fret for example) and just go back and forth between those two notes, and make your own little lead guitar phrases. Mix it up. Listen for what sounds good to you.
PS. You just played your first lead guitar solo. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
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This was Lesson Three iin the Online Lead Guitar Lessons Series. I hope you were able to get through it and play your first solo. You are on your way to a great understanding of how to learn & master the guitar and develop your own great guitar playing style. Wait until you see what comes next!
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