Soloing help?

[BrandonJ]

Hey everyone, I was wondering how I could expand my soling abilities because I’m really not sure what to do at the moment. I always find myself playing a single pentatonic scale repeatedly and overusing double stop bends and tend to go out of key a lot. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

 

[Guest]

Go into practicing vibrato, slides, string skipping, other different types of bends.
Go into the other 4 shapes of the minor pentatonic scale, they are all nice shapes!
Arpeggios are very useful for soloing, they spell out alot of tonality.
Learn other solos, and create your own licks and transcribe.
Then maybe go into pentatonic substitutions!
Get a really repetative backing track that lasts for like a million minutes and just explore these ideas!

 

[Guest]

I really just had to feel the guitar out to play in key somehow now I’m in key most of the time I’m writing my own stuff. To make solos play with arpeggios like Ben said. Also learn other solos maybe you could get some ideas from that. Also some people just play and see what sounds good to them, this approach is okay but I use theory when I’m playing. Also learn some more theory. Theory is basically the building blocks for music or tools. I hope this helped.

 

[idssdi]

Breaking out of pentatonic stuff can come from learning more scales. Changing licks can com from chamging positions. And like all the others say learnig arpeggios works great for doing melodies and stuff like that. Going out of key can be sokved by really knowig your intervals that should work with pickig the right notes outside of the pentatonic scale
Hope this helps

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

Have a look at the masterclass from the man himself, Syn. He showed how he incorporates different elements to add more variety into his solos. No one can imitate him but we can learn the idea from him. You can try some staple licks of different genres and incorporate them in your solo. or you can watch the follwing video for a fun take on this issue.

 

[BrandonJ]

Thanks for help everyone

 

[Alan Celis]

try the different positions for the scale, and that way your phrases will change. Also check on which chords you are soloing so you can know what note doesnt fit in there.