Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 - Beginner to Intermediate
By author, educator and composer Michelle Nelson.
Brand new! Learn all the most important lead guitar techniques and secure your fundamental timing and picking skills with Electric Guitar Solo Style 1. Gradually build your skills, step by step, from basic lead guitar scales, to legato techniques, and work on string bends to get perfect pitching. Once you’ve got the fundamentals down pat, then start combining all the techniques to play licks, and build up to playing full blues guitar solos!
WHAT TOPICS ARE COVERED?
Pentatonic minor + blues scales
Lead guitar techniques: Hammer ons, pull offs, slides and grace notes
How to get pitch perfect bends
How to combine techniques into easily repeatable licks, and how to speed them up
How to put it all together to play full blues solos
…and much more!
By author, educator and composer Michelle Nelson.
Brand new! Learn all the most important lead guitar techniques and secure your fundamental timing and picking skills with Electric Guitar Solo Style 1. Gradually build your skills, step by step, from basic lead guitar scales, to legato techniques, and work on string bends to get perfect pitching. Once you’ve got the fundamentals down pat, then start combining all the techniques to play licks, and build up to playing full blues guitar solos!
WHAT TOPICS ARE COVERED?
Pentatonic minor + blues scales
Lead guitar techniques: Hammer ons, pull offs, slides and grace notes
How to get pitch perfect bends
How to combine techniques into easily repeatable licks, and how to speed them up
How to put it all together to play full blues solos
…and much more!
By author, educator and composer Michelle Nelson.
Brand new! Learn all the most important lead guitar techniques and secure your fundamental timing and picking skills with Electric Guitar Solo Style 1. Gradually build your skills, step by step, from basic lead guitar scales, to legato techniques, and work on string bends to get perfect pitching. Once you’ve got the fundamentals down pat, then start combining all the techniques to play licks, and build up to playing full blues guitar solos!
WHAT TOPICS ARE COVERED?
Pentatonic minor + blues scales
Lead guitar techniques: Hammer ons, pull offs, slides and grace notes
How to get pitch perfect bends
How to combine techniques into easily repeatable licks, and how to speed them up
How to put it all together to play full blues solos
…and much more!
BASICS, BENDING, & THE BLUES: Learn how to guitar solo
This is a must-have primer for Electric guitarists to develop their solo playing skills. A carefully graded course that builds technique step-by-step, Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 is perfect for both adult electric guitar beginners and children 12 and over.
Gradually building skills with scale patterns and exercises, slides, hammer-on, and pull-off exercises, this course develops both your fretboard ability and picking security. EGSS1 includes a clear, step-by-step approach to developing the electric guitar skill of string bending. Using this skill, players learn to combine all techniques into licks to build speed.
And, most important of all, EGSS1 contains lots of realistic solos that are perfect for developing players. These are all based on familiar blues progressions and have accompanying MP3 audio recordings for players to practice along with.
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What will I learn?
Hammer Ons/Pull Offs
Practice your hammer ons/pull offs and get them even and clear every time!
Pitch Perfect Bending Technique
Get a professional sound by mastering your bends with exercises to get perfect bend pitching.
Licks - get em fast!
Combine techniques like bends and pull offs to create licks and practice them until you can do them at high speed!
Put it all together with blues guitar solos
Combine all these techniques into full blues guitar solos and learn how to put everything together!
“I’m really excited to see the Electric Guitar Solo Style series come to fruition. Book One is an excellent starter for new Electric guitarists; I’ve seen many students over the years get fantastic results using these techniques - I can’t wait to share them with everyone.”
COMES COMPLETE WITH 34 MP3 RECORDINGS OF EXERCISES AND GUITAR SOLOS TO PLAY ALONG WITH!
Get your guitar tone, timing and feel just right by playing along with recordings of each exercise, lick, scale or song.
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This book is designed for beginner to intermediate electric guitar players who already have the basics of guitar technique under control. Players should be comfortable with some single-note picking and able to play the common open-position chords with simple rhythms. It’s best suited for players over the age of 12, or adults with foundational guitar/music skills.
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Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 develops your understanding of today’s electric guitar styles, and the history of the instrument, by tracing the Blues based development of it’s playing style from the earliest years through to the 21st century. In turn, these techniques evolved into the popular R’n’B / Rock sounds of the instrument’s heyday, leading to today’s blended style. The Blues came first and gave the electric guitar it’s core techniques that form the foundations of a wide range of modern popular music.
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The exercises focus on building lead guitar skills through the core techniques of scale patterns, alternate picking, hammer-on, pull-off, slide notes, and string bending. Each technique is presented in clear, progressive steps and the recorded samples guide you to the intended music outcome. At each step the solos combine the just presented techniques into familiar sounding music.
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Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 features a blend of notation with TAB, but you don’t need to be a traditional music reader to begin this course. Everything is explained as you progress through it. Whilst familiarity with basic notation, timing and TAB will give you a bit of a head start, if you read the text box on each page that presents new material you will learn all you need to know to work on that page.
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The Electric Guitar Solo Style books are structured differently to other commercially available titles. Unlike other Lead Guitar guides that focus mostly on just scales and connecting patterns across the fretboard, EGSS integrates all techniques with full music examples that demonstrate how those techniques create music. The presentation of bending techniques, and the accompanying strength-building cliche exercises are unique to Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 and 2. This course will develop your ability to a higher level, and give you a clearer view of style than other similar looking books provide.
