3 Things I Wish I Knew When Learning To Solo

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0:00 Jam Track
1:13 Intro
2:02 Live Workshop
3:01 Part One Tone
3:58 Tone Examples
5:12 Part Two Touch
7:06 Part Three Time
8:02 Targeted Rhythms
11:47 Put Them All Together
13:44 Outro

[@mlambrechts1]

I'm 60. Earlier in my guitar life, the scales were directing my soloing. After years, getting more confident, I realized that this is the world upside down. You have to have a melody in your head, envision it on your fretboard, and then apply scales (and notes that come with the melody) to play your solo. This changed my life: I was no longer doing the "classic rock solo" to impress others (=fellow musicians instead of the public) of my technique, but was supporting the song and telling a story...

[@JoshLikesFuzz]

That’s a really lovely way of putting it

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Great way to put it

[@tomholman4991]

perfectly explained

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thanks Rhett!! Such a treat to hang with you, my friend! Thanks for everything and excited to host the workshop on the 29th.

[@marcusmattern5960]

That guitar is killer

[@bluglass7819]

Wide Sky’s are freaking beautiful… all of them.

[@thekolt533]

Agreed, that guitar is freaking amazing especially in the hands of a pro like Rhett!!

[@BluePine37]

What is it?

[@Paul-D]

Looks really cool right!

[@lukescott8438]

@@BluePine37WideSky guitars! That one is the P125 I believe:)

[@TheSpydersBand]

This may be the single best instructional video I’ve ever watched. Tone. Touch. Timing. Aha!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Too kind!

[@michaelmele4888]

"Shading" is a great word for the degrees of touch. Before you said that, I was already thinking of the value scale we had to do in art school.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Very cool.

[@music_ethos]

This is a gold mine. I was shocked when you mentioned the concept of “shading chords”. That is something I really want to look into now!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Super cool

[@rmssegwunfan2870]

Your videos are always so helpful! Thanks man!

[@poptopunderdog9690]

Great practical advice. Thanks guys!

[@alexz.reynaud187]

Thanks for sharing this kind of knowledge. I’ve been playing guitar for the past 25 years, and always keep learning ever since! Your videos are of great help! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Awesome!

[@nine9whitepony526]

Pretty straight forward and simple. Might be the most simplified and yet important lesson I've ever seen on KZbin. Great job

[@GearOneMusic]

Insane advice guys! Thank you so much for that!

[@drpaco947]

Love the approach! Refreshing way to developing our playing.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

So glad you enjoyed it.

[@IC3RTIF1EDI]

That sound at the start is just bliss!!

[@RR-qi1zw]

Fantastic tips. I feel like these types of concise yet impactful nuggets are rare.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Awesome.

[@arpeggio62]

Simply --- an Excellent Video . Fantastic Info !

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thank you !

[@moon_child_farm]

Great video and tips. Thank you gentlemen.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thanks so much

[@steveangell7724]

Really good video guys! Lovely guitar Rhett!

[@ontherocks1026]

Rhett , for the many years I’ve been subscribed to your channel, I’ve always most enjoyed your intro jams. 🤙🏼

[@RhettShull]

Thank you!

[@GregBonks]

One of my favorite guitar solos is from the song "Coffee and TV" by Blur. Graham Coxon recorded a bunch of random notes while turning on and off pedals on his pedalboard. It perfectly fits the nature of the song.

[@randycrooks6240]

Awesome groove.

[@michaelkaufman9625]

thank you Rhett for bringing on Daniel and his 3-"T" s...fantastic; basic, and simple yet the foundation of playing...

[@totolaunione3939]

Great track, I should download it

[@petersmulders8413]

Very helpfull, thnx!!

[@fuzzfuzz4234]

Awesome. Just what I needed.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Glad to hear it

[@FreeUrMindz]

Great video. I picked up more than I few nuanced tips. Thanks guys!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Wonderful

[@Ehsender]

Killer video. Thanks you.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thanks so much

[@dougcrowe1226]

Great lesson

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thank you

[@SgtJADAN200]

The masters knew how to serve the song. Think of Eddie Van Halen! He could PLAY but he didn't just shred all the time. He knew when to shred but also when to lay back and let the song be what it needs to be. Such a great video and very good topics.

[@martincox9691]

I’ve been listening to EVH since Van Halen 1 came out, and never really appreciated how good of a rhythm guitarist Eddie was until last year when my guitar instructor pointed it out.

[@joeybouknight4055]

Great instruction!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thank you!

[@Sea_Jay]

I am in love with that Wide Sky! Some day....

[@Dave-nm3xc]

That is a beautiful guitar!

[@TheGlassasylum]

To introduce an idea, I might use a volume pedal, I would activate an effect, pluck the note and bring up the volume. I use my effects momentarily, to emphasize an ideas. my point is, for newbees, use effects to add color. try not to kill the painting with overuse. I use the plectrume and my fingers in combination when selecting desired strings.

[@mobeus84]

A great thing to add even uf u dont have effects. Learn to use dynamics and attack as tools. Pinch harmonics slides pull offs and how to alternate pick. Rhythm is the most impotant thing. Timing and phrasing. Targeting nites rather than plaingbevery note in the scale. Also BIG TIP ...LEARN TO LET IT BREATHE!! U dont need to play a note every beat.

[@KB24toogood]

Man thank you so much Rhett! I’ll be honest I’ve been in a major rut lately, just playing scales and honestly the more frustrated I get the more I just play scales 😂. But this helps so much. Can’t wait to go home and apply this. Thanks!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Glad this was inspiring.

[@conversionseo1382]

Wide Sky = bucket list. It looks amazing!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

That thing is awesome. Now I want one!

[@boomerdell]

Best advice I've ever received on soloing, by far, is this: Play. The. Melody. It's hard to overstate how this opened things up for me. When I listen to any song with a guitar solo in it, I listen for this and I hear it so often, including when the player is lauded as one of the greatest. Rhett and Daniel are absolutely correct in that what makes most guitar solos stand out for most listeners is the player's touch, feel, tone, and timing. Listen to how the guitarist is using phrasing, dynamics, timing, effects (or lack thereof), etc. The vast majority of all this comes from the player's fretting hand and picking/strumming hand, and so, so often the player is taking the song's melody as the main idea then taking off from there. I know there are countless places a guitarist can take a solo beyond that, but, really, if one focuses attention and energy on knowing the song's melody and applying to their solo, then varying things up from that starting point, even just a tiny bit...I promise, you'll hear and see the world of music open up.

[@MoonWalkerTexsRanger]

Agreed. And it’s way harder to focus on the fewer but exact notes to play than randomly noodling in a scale or mode.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Nicely stated.

[@sprintingforsigns]

This is a great episode

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Awesome thank you

[@jazzzman8050]

Gentleman, this made me want to play! Thank you : )

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Enjoy it!

[@rutgervdzalm]

I can be short on this: thank you guys! Great lesson in getting the music inside !

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thanks for the comment

[@neve4020]

Ok..that widesky could help too🎉

[@gregoryguarneri8473]

As an intermediate player for a very long time, steadily gigging…..this was a great video. Very valuable info I think will help me a ton. I feel like I’ve been in a learning rut

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

So glad it helped.

[@jcatkins5536]

Thanks, guys. I'll employ this info in tonight's workout.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Excellent

[@borntohula94]

That’s a cool guitar. When I saw Bob margolin play he had a similar one with p90s those are dope for blues

[@mattfrederick1]

Daniel- great to see your work!! I was wondering where the heck I knew your name from, then I remembered I rented you a house in WS! Maybe I should have written in life long guitar lessons into the rent agreement! Glad you are crushing it!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Oh man!! that is so freaking cool. Great to reconnect.

[@MATTTHEGREETER]

That groove was like a Pink Floyd/Wham track. Careless Gilmour. Great vid guys! Keep up the good work

[@johnkavaudio4695]

Great ways to break out of ruts, nice!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Awesome

[@StephenLewisful]

I did download this track and thanks Rhett for the other freebies. I've already played with two of the jam tracks and watched the Penta's for Pro's video. As far as touch, I think of a robin's egg. If you're pressing hard enough to crush one, you're pressing too hard. And that's pressure level 1 or the lightest "shade". Thanks again Rhett.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

There you go. That's a cool take

[@rickyd8353]

U2 are really good., with these suggestions are really smooth and enjoyable to watch and listen

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Appreciate you

[@eliasthury425]

Hey managed to catch this right away. Happened to drop on my lunch break.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Very cool

[@toto8918]

That backing track sounds amazing. It reminds me of the last part of 'I may know the word' by Natalie Merchant.

[@BruceGoett]

Excellent tutorial. I'm pretty hamfisted but I'm going to work on adding sensitivity to solos and fills etc.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Amazing what mindfulness can do

[@jeremiaht.5978]

Man that White Sky is beeeeautiful

[@annunacky4463]

That was eye opening for me. Older player here, who overgrips during bends, then can’t stop pressing too hard. Lower action helped a lot also.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Fantastic

[@KountryCuz1]

That is A Great looking Guitar

[@albert.escobar31]

I can do that!

[@ggar9623]

good video

[@jeffcartwright4265]

Is that a wide sky guitar?

[@geoffwidmier3714]

Great advice! Picking lightly is huge! Especially when your amp is mic’d and running through a PA at a venue. Harsh tones come through way too clear!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

So true

[@yamraaj4529]

❤❤❤

[@lisa.s.headley7]

❤

[@nicennice]

As a poor intermediate player, these are great ideas. Especially the touch thing that's a revelation to me. That's a mindset change in my playing, something I'll think about every time I pick up the guitar. You should have called this video "Guitar playing super powers". Very good.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thank you

[@joshlawless1022]

Rhett I love that warm muted bass tone. Is that a P Bass with flats?

[@Fastlane05]

I am at a point in my playing where I am struggling with phrasing. I know the fretboard really well, I know all 5 positions of the pentatonic, diatonic and I'm okay with the modes. But phrasing is killing me. I think this video will take me light years ahead of where I am now. Thank you so much!

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Amazing to hear. Glad it was helpful

[@magnethomewood]

Thanks for this lesson, but I wish that the free backing track had info about the chords and the key, because that is kind of fundamental when playing over it. Even so, great lesson!

[@micahjones3562]

Great tips and great playing guys! Rhett, what was that awesome glitchy delay thing at 12:52? Were you using an expression pedal with the delay?

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

I think that was his Chase Bliss

[@rochound47]

So cool

[@davidjonkassan]

touch is like values in a painting, theres a spectrum.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Absolutely

[@Paul-D]

I definitely have more control over my right picking hand then my left - im always too hard on the fingerboard and find it a pretty tough thing to get out of

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Consistent mindfulness will get you there

[@travistheile6826]

Duude WHAT guitar is that???? I LUV IT..

[@lmusic865]

Your backing tracks are sick I mean I can play hours on it

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

They really did an awesome job

[@bolkoa.zgierski646]

Clean the fretboard on the B&G mate ;)) good vid as always

[@kerrylucy]

Rhett can you do a video on Matteo Mancuso?

[@splashesin8]

😊😊

[@CorbCorbin]

I usually play any vocal melody from songs I like, over the chord progression, just to get a feel for the song, to still play lead guitar, when not soloing. I rely on dynamics, in my picking, bending, muting, volume roll off, gain/fuzz pedals that respond to it, etc., to make up for my weaknesses, and it just became how I play naturally. If I’m playing in a band that needs a specific style, I’ll change to do it, but the dynamics are key to buinding emotion and holding someone’s attention for more than one song or solo, imo.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Nice

[@bolillo5013]

We use that number scale of pressure for classical double bass too. I thought that was interesting.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Very cool

[@chzzyg2698]

That amp tone is what I hear in my dreams.

[@Veneta72-sf8ts]

Tone, touch, time...excellent tips! Now, please explain why every youtube guitar guru plays the same reheated pseudo-SRV licks, always in A minor, overdriven, raking every third note?

[@jeremythornton433]

This is brilliant advice! Thank you! Oh. By the way. I really enjoy your playing and music. Have you ever tried to jam with Chris Buck? You 2 would sound amazing together.

[@ccgsocial953]

What is that big black cushion thing on his right leg?

[@LesSand75]

tip to avoid overpicking: _always_ practice hooked up to an amp. Especially if you’re playing high gain Bonus: it’s also much harder to get away with sloppy playing

[@ImpostorModanica]

What fuzz did you use here Rhett?

[@Flukey_1970]

Totally agree with improvising using scales is an effective way to learn scales but dont think it should be an instead but an as well as. I learn notes on the neck and link them to notes on the staff by playing scales up and down.

[@lorenzoburatti4471]

Rett, do you keep to use 009 strings set in your guitars?

[@dickderry]

Jam track reminds me of Steely Dan Gaucho era

[@arthurbrands6935]

Your three 'T's reminded me of J.J.Cale's recommendation for success: "Tone, Taste, and Tenacity". Watching this and Rick's "...like that." shorts, I'd add "Tutorials."

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Rhett and I are both big JJ Cale fans.

[@ZitherBeast]

What everybody else said. Great video.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Thanks so much

[@Brewhound77]

The way I figured out how to improve my touch was to turn my amp up too loud and then try to play as quietly as possible. Alternatively, dial in too much gain and then try to get as clean a tone as possible.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Cool idea

[@FunkAndFluff]

To be a great soloist, you've got to be a great rhythm section player. You guys get it.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

There we go

[@simonlasalle102]

What is the octave fuzz sound pedal you are using?

[@AJbassist]

the 3 T are the ideas janek G bassit bases alot his ideals on

[@chrisbush7746]

素晴らしい　what octave fuzz?

[@johnmckenna4256]

Rhett, how can you not mention the guitar you are playing?

[@cosmegonzalez]

So videos done without Daniel Seriff are Sans Seriff?

[@TheRealCAPerry]

What key and chord progression is being used in the backing track in, I don’t think I heard that mentioned during the video?

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

You can download it and it tells all the details. It's in A minor.

[@TheRealCAPerry]

@@DanielSeriffMusic I did, but it’s just come down as a waveform with no details. Might be an iPad thing.

[@yiranimal]

Great video! I think noodling is the enemy. I bore myself while I'm doing it, and it instills a lack of inspiration. These techniques you suggest are tools to work your way out of it. Noodling sounds alright when great guitarists do it, but I think that's a different sort of thing. That would be more stock phrases that are still played like they mean something. Throwaway notes are a waste of everybody's attention, and tends not to hold it. I'd love to see videos of great improvisers break down what they're thinking and how they're moving around, in real time. Are they thinking third... fifth... changing scales, etc? Perhaps they clear their mind of theory and really listen to the note instead of thinking about scale degree. Getting into the heads of talented improvisers would be a really helpful series.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

Definitely

[@joshuakoyukuk6381]

So the 3 Ts are pretty much subdivisions of the term "feel"

[@boing844]

What guitar is Rhett playing there?

[@EdgeofBreakup]

Wide Sky Guitars P125c

[@joshshaffer9673]

stupid question but what key is this backing track in?

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

A minor

[@paulsholar9356]

Gilmour style is manifest throughout..

[@rickyd8353]

I’m a beginner, can U suggest how to pick a good teacher on Utube

[@kubatrolski5450]

JustinGuitar has a really well structured and comprehensive course for beginners, you should check out his channel

[@mstones6642]

There are many good teachers, but the problem for beginner is that it is not possible to find a structured path to learn effective.

[@misterknightowlandco]

Here’s your structure: 1. Cowboy chords 2. Barre Chords 3. Caged system… once you get those 3 things under your fingers… you’re 80% of the way there.

[@user-pg8pt2er9z]

Started this video at 1.5X speed on accident and I regret nothing