15 Minutes To Better Solos - Guitar Lesson - Melodic Soloing Tips and Tricks

In this lesson we explore how to make your solos more melodic. We do this by learning how to find different chord shapes within our pentatonic scales. Once we can do this we will be able to have the confidence and skills to solo over almost any common chord progression. This lesson will show you a quick tip to finding major pentatonic position one, also how to find the chord progression chords within it. Good luck! Happy soloing! Thanks for watching!
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Looking for more free in depth instruction? Check out the videos below where I cover everything from acoustic strumming to how master your fretboard in the major and minor pentatonic soloing series.
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22 years of playing and full time guitarist/bassist here. Mad props and love the lesson. I hate that i just 'noodle' in the right pentatonic or mode but have been ignoring the actual chord tones for my target notes over each chord. cheers sir! sharing this for my musician buddies

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Holy matrimony, I feel like around the 9:00 mark, my understanding of soloing improved like 10 fold. I understood the CAGED system somewhat but wow, this put things into perspective. I am soloing better instantly now. Cant thank you enough Brett!!

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