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.
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NEW!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 in time:
The Altermann Interviews - A series of discussions between the young apprentice
Steve Caulfield and the experienced guitar teacher Mike Altermann. In these interviews, Altermann displays his approach and his philosophy about guitar teaching, guitar evolution and music, in general.
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.
Guitar Licks - All the lead guitar licks that appeared at "The Lick of the Week". A growing collection of guitar exercises.
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.
Transposing Licks - A method of learning scales and improvisation is by transposing licks. We'll take a simple lick in a certain scale, we'll have it transposed to a few other scales and then, you'll transpose it to as many scales as you wish.
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.
Guitar Midi Files - A large collection of Midi Files. They will help you to study music, extract a drum track for your own use or practice with a "band".
Cakewalk CAL Programs - Some programs that will make Sonar users' work faster and easier.
Publish - Every day, thousands guitar enthusiasts visit MyGuitarSolo.com. Among them, there are vocalists looking for guitarists, guitarists looking for bass players, drummers looking for bands, producers looking for new artists. Give them a chance to listen to your music!
Reviews - Extensive articles about guitar products and music.
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.
Fundamental Guitar Albums - This is a list of great guitar albums that are fun to listen to and, in the same time, are among those that defined the evolution of guitar playing.
The Best 500 Albums Of All Time - At the end of the year 2004, the Rolling Stones magazine published a list of the "Greatest Albums of All Time". A good opportunity for those who want to listen to the music of the past five decades and don't know where to start from and, also, to get an idea about the evolution of the role played by the guitar in pop, rock, folk, country and jazz.
The Wall Of Guitarists: meet guitarists you never heard about, hear a few of their licks, find new sources of inspiration!
My Guitar Solo Toolbar
Guitar Solo Toolbar - Find guitar information and equipment from any page on the web!
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