Solos For Beginners

[Jak Angelescu]

Hello everyone! I am submitting this little quick video because I got inspired with the songs I am working on for the jam sessions I do now. I have had to write some solos for the songs we do and I wanted to showcase to beginners that you don't need to shred if the song doesn't call for it. There are many levels of beginner style solos that you can play with ease within a few months of practicing the guitar regularly. Don't be ashamed and don't think that you have to shred in order to fill that spot. Also you don't need a 2 minute long epic solo incorporating 10 different techniques. Even if it's just 9 seconds long. These are the solos I wrote for the songs I'm doing! Hope you guys enjoy!

 

[Ethan Keeling]

Hit the nail on the head, @Jak Angelescu! Beautiful melody AND motif, which should be more important than needless shredding. Perfect examples! Nice job!

 

[Dominik Gräber]

Great choices and awesome you point that out! It's a thing that's hard to learn for most beginners because they are inspired by all those shred gods. But really any solo is beautiful when you found joy in playing guitar.
Two other solos I regard fairly easy are
Metallica - Nothing else matters
and The Last Fight - Bullet for my Valentine. This one is especially good if you want to slowly get into sweep picking I think

 

[Gabriel Perez]

Another good one that’s really easy is Warmness on the Soul by Avenged Sevenfold

 

[Ezequiel Romanko]

Totally true Jak, the coolest thing about keeping the solos simple is that you can think more of the melody and the phrashing and creating feelings, cuz you don't have to waste time thinking im doing this right? or it's shreddy enough? haha. beatiful stuff for beginners and for everybody, cuz we tend a lot to make our solos stand out for it's technical difficulty rather than for its melody or feeling towards the song.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Another good one that’s really easy is Warmness on the Soul by Avenged Sevenfold

That's a ZACKY SOLO.


You know what I'm just gonna say it. That guy deserves a solo too he should write more (solo album!?).

 

[Gabriel Perez]

DUDE A SOLO ZACKY ALBUM WOULD BE KILLER

 

[Firsty Lasty]

I've got a quick suggestion for those wanting ez guitar solos. The most popular guitar solo among non-guitarists when I was younger was the one in "when I come around", by Green Day. As guitarists we listen to that and think "lol so weak" but normal people hear that and think "omg so amazing".

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Wait green day solos?

 

[Firsty Lasty]

Serious answer: you could reasonably listen to the whole song and not notice that it had a guitar solo. Or maybe you hear it and don't think that it even counts as a guitar solo.

 

[Andy Montoya]

Sometimes the best solos are the simplest ones

 

[Sebastian Lane]

Sometimes it's easier to learn a solo where the song is just 1 big long solo :

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Serious answer: you could reasonably listen to the whole song and not notice that it had a guitar solo. Or maybe you hear it and don't think that it even counts as a guitar solo.

I know which part you're talking about lol I'm just being funny

 

[Jak Angelescu]

@Kat the metalhead I've added a bit to some of them

 

[Nocturne]

Good job, I love the songs choice!

 

[Kim]

Thanks for video! I like trying to solo, but found it hard to get it perfect, but keep on trying

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Thanks for video! I like trying to solo, but found it hard to get it perfect, but keep on trying

It's definitely not easy! Good for you and keep it up!