Boost Your Guitar Solo Power

by Vreny Van Elslande Skyrocket your Guitar Playing A List Of Things That Will Make Your Guitar Solos Better Overnight.

Rhythmic

    Staccato.
    Playing notes in a melody very short and punctuated.

    Mix more different rhythms in your note placement. Combine 8th notes with 16ths, with triplets with quarter notes with ties, etc…

    Drag, push and pull notes across the beat.
    Don’t “lock in” with the rhythm section. You are talking with your instrument. Don’t let the rhythm section dictate you where to speak your guitar.

    Don’t play too many long sustained notes.

    Don’t forget to let your music breath. You don’t have to play all the time.
    Space and silence are important. What you don’t play is as important as what you do play.

    Pace yourself. Don’t rush.

    Try to play more behind the beat.
    It makes you sound more confident. Play lazy. Try to play all your melodic phrases a bit late.

Attack: Picking Hand

    Dynamics
    Don’t play every note equally loud. Let your guitar whisper. Let it scream.
    Also play the notes nobody else can hear. They are important too.

    Pinch harmonics
    These harmonics are produced when you pick the string in such a way that the side of your thumb briefly touches the string right after the pick attack.

    Mutes and muted attacks
    Pick a string while touching it with your fretting hand without pressing it against the fret. This produces a percussive sound.

    Palm mute notes
    This should be called “palm dampening”.
    Pretty much like a damper pedal on a piano, you muffle the string vibration a bit by resting your picking on the bridge, very slightly touching the strings a bit.

    Legato
    A technique where you play melody lines connecting all the notes with hammer ons, pull offs and slides.
    This sounds more fluent than if you would pick every note.

    Pick closer to the bridge, or closer to the neck.
    This produces different sound timbres. Closer to the neck, you get a warmer sound quality.
    Closer to the bridge produces a more metallic, brighter timbre.

    Tap notes
    This is like a hammer on, but with a finger of the picking hand.
    This allows you to do a hammer on at a larger intervallic distance than you can reach for with your fretting hand.

    Pluck notes with thumb and fingers
    Playing notes with your thumb, gives these notes a fuller, warmer sound. Notes played with fingers sound a bit more snappy.

    Pick chords or notes with pick and fingers simultaneously
    This is also called hybrid picking.
    This technique produces a different sound than the sound you get when you only play with pick or only with fingers.

    Chicken Picking.
    A technique where you precede single notes by a very quick mute right before the note.

    Pick scrapes and scratches
    This sound is produced when you scrape the edge of your pick along the wounded bass strings.

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