Questions tagged [lead-guitar]
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.
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Lead guitar improvisation strategies for young intermediate guitarists
One of my 15 year old students is progressing quite nicely in her ability, including playing live and playing learned guitar parts including lead lines. She reads music and can play many classical and ...
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Guitar solo techniques
I have been playing guitar for a while now and I've decided (after playing with a guy I know and seeing how expressive his solos are) that I need to improve my improvisation.
My improvisations are ...
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What is the meaning of these lines connecting notes?
I am trying to use a software called guitar pro to copy the sheet music and play the tracks. I am currently stuck in this track as I am not able to understand what does the dot and the little symbol ...
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Modes: More complicated than it seems?
I've been playing guitar for almost 12 years now. I had never really gotten into what is described as 'modal playing'; I tried years ago and it seemed so hopelessly complicated that I abandoned it.
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As a beginner guitarist is it worth learning to play lead guitar early on?
I started to learn how to play guitar a month ago, but being in a busy science program in college I have limited time to practice. I would like to eventually play lead rather than rhythm.
I am using ...
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Balancing sound of Acoustic and Electric Guitars
My band has two guitar players. One often plays acoustic while the other one plays an electric guitar. There has always been a problem balancing the volume and the frequences. While both guitars play ...
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What thickness pick should I get for lead guitar? [closed]
(I read like a batty child, so please understand that as you go through this message)
Sure, I've been playing acoustic and rhythm guitar for over 8 years. Yeah, I got strumming up and down mastered. ...
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Acoustic guitar as solo guitar in a band
I play acoustic guitar (with a magnetic pickup through an acoustic amp) in a band that also has drums, bass and an electric guitar.
I mostly keep the rhythm with chords (I am an amateur in guitar, ...
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Finger pain in lead guitar practice
I've recently started learning some lead guitar lines, running through scales, modes, patterns, and my little finger simply will not do what I want it to. I have had a few breaks over the years (ring &...
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How to convert Vocals into lead Guitar
I have seen many people play the vocals of a song like leads on the guitar.
There is not much guitar in my country's music so I am trying to learn how to convert the vocals of songs into guitar lead ...
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Are chord transitions and strumming patterns necessary for learning lead guitar?
I've only recently begun picking up guitar (barely over a week ago) with the intention of learning to play lead parts and solos of songs I like. I have been learning chords and scales and how they ...
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How to make a slow melodic solo sound beautiful
I’ve listen to many songs where there’s a lead guitar part that is very slow and not that impressive, but the song sounds amazing, But when I try to play them they just sound like some notes and not ...
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Is even-interval tuning a sensible idea for lead guitar?
I'm primarily a rhythm guitarist who has recently taken up bass. I've been struck how easy the equal 4th intervals between strings is for scale patterns, which surely have as much relevance for lead ...
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Any ideas for soloing on guitar?
So far I have known 3 pentatonic shapes, I don't just run it up and down when soloing but I don't think it's a good solo. I've heard about harmony, target notes, chords, one pentatonic per chord but I ...
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How to solo over chord changes on guitar?
To give some context, I am able to easily solo over a backing track based on the key of the track - all over the guitar's fretboard using most of the advanced guitar techniques and scale runs.
My ...
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Soloing using the G Major and A Minor Arpeggio
I am learning how to solo using chord tones. As of now I am experimenting with the G Major Triad and the A Minor Triad. I play through the notes then resolve on one of the G Major Chord tones. How ...
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I'm trying to understand sus2 sus4 chords over a rock progresion(powerchords)
I only have a limited knowledge of music theory.
One thing i dont fully understand is tension resolve and also the role of the third for tension resolve over powerchordprogression(powerchords only ...
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how to learn to play lead parts like this?
This is a song (
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