I'm supposed to read an article called 'hydrophobicity influence on swimming performance of magnetically driven miniature helical swimmers' but I don't really feel like it that much so I figured I'd share my philosophy on soloing with you. We used to have a solo trouble thing with lessons of one minute but I can't possibly explain this in one minute so I'm just gonna do it like this. If you have any questions you can always ask.
First thing I want to talk about is melody/motif. Personally I'm more of a melody guy than I am into shredding, I do really like lyrical players a lot. Basically what I do is find a whole lot of melodies/motifs and work around them. Yes, I do multiple in one solo because you have to change it up every once in a while and just the same melody with a different landing tone can bore me a little bit.
Second thing I want to talk about is landing tones(https://syngates.com/lessons/landing-tones-lesson-3.165/) and color tones(https://syngates.com/lessons/color-tones-lesson-4.166/). I use the chord tones of all the chords I play over but mostly avoid landing on the root note until I get near the end this is because that one always gives me a sense of 'hey, this solo is over' so it's not really Nice to use it a lot in the middle of my solo because it starts feeling like it's dragging on a little bit. However, near the end the root note is mind of my go to because an end is an end and I don't want to give anyone, including myself, the idea that there's more stuff coming, an example of that is Roman Sky for me because every time I listen to it I go like 'theres more coming right?' at the end of the solo and it just kinda ends. Another thing I like to do is not land on chord tones but on intervals I know kinda work with the chord but aren't in the chord(2nds, 4ths, 6s, 7ths). Not all of them sound nice but some do and it's a pretty nice trick to grab the listener's attention.
Last but not least there's the shreddy stuff. When I have all the above settled I sometimes do little shreddy bits in between it all.
Of course it's important to play stuff that fits over the backingtrack you're playing over. If I would play over a slow blues for example I would leave the shredding out because it sounds a little out of place to me
First thing I want to talk about is melody/motif. Personally I'm more of a melody guy than I am into shredding, I do really like lyrical players a lot. Basically what I do is find a whole lot of melodies/motifs and work around them. Yes, I do multiple in one solo because you have to change it up every once in a while and just the same melody with a different landing tone can bore me a little bit.
Second thing I want to talk about is landing tones(https://syngates.com/lessons/landing-tones-lesson-3.165/) and color tones(https://syngates.com/lessons/color-tones-lesson-4.166/). I use the chord tones of all the chords I play over but mostly avoid landing on the root note until I get near the end this is because that one always gives me a sense of 'hey, this solo is over' so it's not really Nice to use it a lot in the middle of my solo because it starts feeling like it's dragging on a little bit. However, near the end the root note is mind of my go to because an end is an end and I don't want to give anyone, including myself, the idea that there's more stuff coming, an example of that is Roman Sky for me because every time I listen to it I go like 'theres more coming right?' at the end of the solo and it just kinda ends. Another thing I like to do is not land on chord tones but on intervals I know kinda work with the chord but aren't in the chord(2nds, 4ths, 6s, 7ths). Not all of them sound nice but some do and it's a pretty nice trick to grab the listener's attention.
Last but not least there's the shreddy stuff. When I have all the above settled I sometimes do little shreddy bits in between it all.
Of course it's important to play stuff that fits over the backingtrack you're playing over. If I would play over a slow blues for example I would leave the shredding out because it sounds a little out of place to me
