Guitar Solo - Scales, Chops, Licks, Technique, Improvisation, Guitar Lessons

This site is dedicated to guitar players who want to improve their guitar technique, to add some new chops to their repertoire, to learn guitar scales or improvisation. The exercises inside include the basic craft, skills and techniques of the solo guitar. It also offers to any guitarist the opportunity to be heard by a large audience.

Guitar Solo - Main Content:

Practice Schedule - If you really mean to become a professional solo guitarist, here is your practice schedule.

Tips

How to Read Guitar Tab - The explanation of the guitar tablature.
Guitar Techniques - Basic guitar techniques.
Guitar Tips and Secrets - How to Listen, Speed, Guitar Tone and more.
The Guitar Principles Experience - Inspiring articles by famous guitarist and tutor Jamie Andreas.
Overcome Difficulties - All of us encounter difficulties while practicing, maybe you'll find some
How to Buy Guitar Gear - Buying tips: how to buy guitars, amps and guitar effects.

Scales

Scales Step by Step - Learning scales in a few easy steps.

Licks

Increasing Speed - A proved method to increase speed while preserving accuracy is playing the same phrase at a slow tempo in the beginning and then increasing speed. The complexity will grow with every new lick.
Guitar Chops - A few technique exercises to improve your agility, speed and accuracy.
Guitar Warm-up - Short solo guitar licks easy to memorize and practice.
Essential Licks - The great guitar solos are perfect musical constructions but they always include memorable licks, small music lines that are impossible to forget and that define the style of the soloist. This is a suggestion of the most prominent guitar licks.
Famous Solos, Guitar Styles and Guitar Technique - There are guitar solos that will help you progress as a guitar player. There are guitar solos that are simply fun to play. Here is a list of such guitar solos.

Improvisation

Guitar Improvisation Tips - Some advice of how to improve your improvisation skills.
Jazz Practice - A few basic jazz sequences you can practice along with.
Guitar Blues Practice - A few basic blues sequences you can practice along with.

Lists

Memorable Guitar Riffs - Every rock guitar player looks for the perfect little musical phrase that should provide the rhythm and personality of the song. There are riffs that, once you've heard the song, never leave your memory. There are very simple riffs, of only two notes and there are also complex, deliberated riffs.
The Most Influential Guitar Players - An open list of the most influential guitar players.

Pentatonic and Diatonic Scales

An easier way to learn pentatonic and diatonic scales, the starting point of learning all scales.

Increasing Speed

A proved method to increase speed while preserving accuracy is playing the same phrase at a slow tempo in the beginning and then increasing speed. Here are some licks that do exactly this. We'll start with very simple phrases. The complexity will grow with every lick.

Guitar Licks Directory

Guitar Licks Directory - Practice guitar with these licks to improve your guitar skills and techniques.