How To Guitar Solo and Play Beyond Scales

See which scales are used to play lead guitar and learn how to add musical phrases to your solos

So you want to play lead guitar and light up your fretboard with your solos, huh? 🔥

I can't blame you. Guitar soloing is one of the coolest things about playing guitar. 😎

But here's the deal...

In order to be a great lead guitarist, you need to first understand two things:

  1. How guitarists use scales to play solos (and which scales they use)

  2. How to play musical phrases so it doesn't sound like you're just playing up and down scales
In this completely free video lesson, you see how to get started as a lead guitarist and how to build a vocabulary of licks and phrases so you sound like a tasteful player.

All this in 31 minutes.

And it's free.

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Desi Serna
Desi Serna

Hailed as a “music-theory expert” by Rolling Stone magazine, Desi Serna is the author of several instructional guitar books and video courses. He hosts one of the most popular guitar podcasts on the Internet and has millions of views on YouTube. Desi is known for his practical, hands-on approach to music teaching, with a focus on the guitar fretboard and emphasis on popular songs. He honed his craft through decades of teaching, performing, and publishing. He lives in the Nashville, Tennessee area, and works full-time managing his GuitarMusicTheory.com website and related content.


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