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Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches

Electrify Your Rock Guitar Solos with this Rock Learning Path Core Course

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Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches
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Welcome to Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches for late intermediate to advanced students of Rock guitar.

This Rock Learning Path core course is presented by 9 top TrueFire educators: Oz Noy, David Grissom, Andy Timmons, Jennifer Batten, Dave Celentano, Rusty Cooley, Jeff Scheetz, Angus Clark and Shane Theriot.

The Advanced Soloing Approaches curriculum is comprised of select Rock guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

The ability to improvise freely, and creatively, over any given groove or changes is one of the key skills that distinguishes the advanced and pro player. The insight and performance studies in this core course will advance your technical, creative, and improvisational skills. Learn the soloing examples note-for-note and then use the ideas and technical approaches to craft your own solos and improvisations.

Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, you’ll work on concepts like using fragments, ornamentation, and horizontal vs vertical soloing. In section 2 you will look at several intervallic techniques. Then in section 3 you will work through several challenging Performance Studies to help you understand why you are playing what you are playing.

When you’ve completed the lessons here in Advanced Soloing Approaches, you’ll find more lessons focused on soloing in Advanced Soloing Principles, also a Play Rock Guitar 10 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let’s get started!

What you'll learn

  • Create melodic variations in soloing
  • Advanced improvisation skills
  • Learn to match instructor's guitar tone
  • Develop versatile solo performance skills
  • Improve improvisation techniques
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 2h 10m runtime
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Sample lessons
Brecker Pentatonic Pattern
Brecker Pentatonic Pattern
Concept 4
Changing It Up: Adding The 6th
Changing It Up: Adding The 6th
Concept 1
Soloing Within Chords
Soloing Within Chords
Concept 17
Skip To My Intervals
Skip To My Intervals
Overview

What's included

41 lessons • 20 charts • 14 Jam Tracks

Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches
Welcome to Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches for late intermediate to advanced students of Rock guitar.

This Rock Learning Path core course is presented by 9 top TrueFire educators: Oz Noy, David Grissom, Andy Timmons, Jennifer Batten, Dave Celentano, Rusty Cooley, Jeff Scheetz, Angus Clark and Shane Theriot.

The Advanced Soloing Approaches curriculum is comprised of select Rock guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

The ability to improvise freely, and creatively, over any given groove or changes is one of the key skills that distinguishes the advanced and pro player. The insight and performance studies in this core course will advance your technical, creative, and improvisational skills. Learn the soloing examples note-for-note and then use the ideas and technical approaches to craft your own solos and improvisations.

Play Rock Guitar 10: Advanced Soloing Approaches is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, you'll work on concepts like using fragments, ornamentation, and horizontal vs vertical soloing. In section 2 you will look at several intervallic techniques. Then in section 3 you will work through several challenging Performance Studies to help you understand why you are playing what you are playing.

When you've completed the lessons here in Advanced Soloing Approaches, you'll find more lessons focused on soloing in Advanced Soloing Principles, also a Play Rock Guitar 10 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Concepts and Insight
In this section you will work with various concepts like using fragments and chromatic approaches, and soloing within chords. Targeting the triads is also an important step in your rock soloing development and there are some great lessons in here to help with that.

TIP! Guitar playing is a lot about what you know and understand. Without that you are just fumbling around on the fretboard.

A good way to keep track of all the concepts and different approaches you are going to be working on is to keep a practice notebook handy and jot down these ideas. Your notes can be as simple as "Use the Major pentatonic over a Major chord" or more difficult concepts like chord substitutions. Whatever they are - make notes and review them frequently. Most concepts are things that you will use time and time again throughout your playing career, so keeping track of them all is imperative.

Eventually these concepts become subconscious knowledge like putting one foot in front of the other as you walk across the room, but until then, constant review and repeated use will make sure you are not forgetting or overlooking anything.
Brecker Pentatonic Pattern
Brecker Pentatonic Pattern - Concept 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by Shane Theriot and is sourced from Solo Mojo.

Sometimes the same old scale sequences can get stale. I used to transcribe a lot from horn players and practice out of books that were written for other instruments rather than just guitar. Here's a nice pattern that I got from Michael Brecker, the late, great saxophonist. It works over Cmin or sounds great over the relative major Eb as well. Keep in mind when learning these examples that just a few notes from it can be very powerful- you may need only part of this in a real playing situation. Try and keep melody and phrasing in mind at all times.
Changing It Up: Adding The 6th
Changing It Up: Adding The 6th - Concept 1 is a video guitar lesson presented by Shane Theriot and is sourced from Solo Mojo.

Let's take a fairly basic pentatonic shape and re-finger it to incorporate the 6th. This will "open up" the sound a bit and break you out of playing the same familiar licks. You could also look at this as a Fmin7 arpeggio, but we replace the b7th with the 6th. This "widens" the sound a bit and you can use this new shape as a launching pad for new phrases.
Using Fragments
Using Fragments - Concept 20 is a video guitar lesson presented by Shane Theriot and is sourced from Solo Mojo.

Another approach is to use what I call "fragments." These are ideas that can be moved around the neck at random and interspersed with your other ideas to mix things up. Here's one that is a hybrid of an idea that I got from Al Dimeola.
Descending Chromatic Approach
Descending Chromatic Approach - Concept 21 is a video guitar lesson presented by Shane Theriot and is sourced from Solo Mojo.

Learning longer chromatic licks and lines can be a good way to get this sound under your fingers as well. Here's an example over Abmin7. The best way to learn these longer ideas is to break them down into several sections and learn each section, one at a time.
Fast Chromatic Patterns
Fast Chromatic Patterns - Concept 23 is a video guitar lesson presented by Shane Theriot and is sourced from Solo Mojo.

For more of the "guitar pattern" kind of chromatic sound, here is one I got from Shawn Lane. Some fast alternate picking is required in order to pull this one off. This sound can also be heard by players like Steve Morse.

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Reviews

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magditfr

Verified buyer

06/16/21

Expanding horizons

This is a great course for opening your eyes to other fretboard possibilities. Definitely gets you thinking about going beyond the "standard" patterns. The melodic approach this course takes you is pleasing to the listener.

wholmer

12/31/20

Best class I have taken for making solos out of licks

I give this class 5 stars because I have had trouble in the past trying to learn to connect licks into solos. and strumming progressions. The structure is well planned and progress is from easy to not so easy but you are ready for it if you follow along and practice!

javierON01

Verified buyer

10/14/20

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