Lead Guitar Solos
This lesson will introduce you to a lead guitar solo. A lead guitar solo is made up of many licks often played within a pattern, such as lead guitar pattern one. A solo will feature at least once in a Rock song, normally in the middle of the song after one of two verses has been played.
It is always helpful to know what chords are being played in the background as you play your solo. Which chords are used, when the chord changes occur and which type of rhythm is used will affect the overall sound of your solo. As you come across the different solos in this book, you will also be invited to try the accompanying rhythm guitar part to each solo.
The first solo in this book (Solo Flight) is played over a twelve bar blues progression in the key of G. The chords G, C and D are used, and played as root six bar chords on the 3rd, 8th and 10th frets.
A triplet rhythm, counted as 1 and ah, 2 and ah, 3 and aht 4 and ah, is also used.
The lead guitar solo which accompanies the previous chord progression must also be played in the key of G. The solo is played completely within lead guitar pattern one, which when played in the key of G begins on the third fret of the sixth string (a G note).
As discussed earlier, the correct definition for lead guitar pattern one is Minor Pentatonic scale. The G Minor Pentatonic scale consists of the notes G, Bb, C, D and F which are the l, b3, 4, 5 and b7 notes of the G Major scale (G A B C D E F#, G).
