Build your own solo guitar composition using these 7 steps! Guitar Lesson EP564

[@andyjales]

Ok, this is my comment. You are a genious !!!!! Every lesson You give is a light bulb for me. Thank You very very much Brian!!!!

[@kenbanfield4179]

Totally agree with that!

[@Texas1836Band]

I agree! He is brilliant and I really like his lessons

[@ldeleon505]

I've been playing for over 40 years and this lesson was transformative. And it all started with Three Blind Mice. Well done.🤌

[@SpencerBMcDuffy]

I’ve gotten so much better since being with active melody, I’m playing things I never realistically thought I could play because of this site. Keep going man! You’re killing it! 😊

[@luieortega9495]

Oh, man! That was the best explanation on how to mix a rhythm and lead guitar technique. My mind is blown 😃🤪 Thank you for the secret, I have been wanting to know for years! 100 crunchy little stars to you ✨️

[@EDGARDOUX1701]

Love this lesson Brian! Hope to see more. This guy should have 10 million subscribers.

[@rajennaidoo7]

Once again, profoundly grateful to you for another eye-opener. You so easily debunked this notion in my head that solo compositions are the sole preserve of talented musicians.. Incredible how you so humbly and selflessly teach us. You always complete your lesson, never leaving us in 'mid-air'. Another GEMS of a lesson. Although 5 am, guitar on my lap. You have given us a launching pad: going to very slowly break down solo of ' Let it be' because to me, there is a tenuous link between the melody line and the intricate lead work. I guess it comes from The genius of THE BEATLES. May God continue to bless you and your family.

[@dWindytree]

This lesson really helped me gain confidence in using the caged shapes for creating a melody. This is a great springboard for putting the CAGED series to work in a fundamental way. Your instructional skills do not disappoint! Thank you, Brian.

[@jfinke373]

Very thought provoking! Thanks for laying it out so clearly. I really enjoy your lessons. One step at a time, is just like the keep it simple thing. Genius is in simplicity. Well done Sir.

[@Black1ce8]

Brian - yes. Absolutely yes. Great lesson!

[@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes]

I’m a simple man, I see a new ActiveMelody video, I hit 👍

[@MaxdeVietri-h7o]

What an interesting but obvious manner of teaching improvisation. Very much progressing with working with your tablatures and working from it. Thanks Brian

[@nyzombiesquad182]

Another great lesson with awesome information. Always something to either learn or engrain even deeper. Thanks for all you do!!❤

[@LAGreg123]

This is the lesson I’ve been looking for. In 20 minutes you were able to spell out a simple way to take a basic idea and expand it to a real piece of music using some other basic knowledge. Man it really clicked. This is going to be the dog-eared text I come back to again and again. Thanks man.

[@lancelot6465]

I‘m sure, that all the great guitarists we admire, got started at this point! Bringing it all together - chords, triads, penta scales, timing and how to use it for making music - Brian‘s lesson is the entry point for every upcoming guitar hero 👏👏👏🎸👌 - Thank you so much for this cool lesson

[@donaldsmith4249]

Thanks Brian, This lesson helps me to understand better the song writing process. I can tell it's going to take a LOT of practice.

[@bruceall2001]

I tend to do this kind of thing a lot when I'm just noodling and probably not realizing it until a video like this puts it in context. Thanks.

[@alexmckenzie9709]

Thank you! Methodical and clear path to hitting the right notes!

[@eduardocardenas2478]

Excellent like always thanks for sharing your talent👏👏👏👏🎆 ❤ God bless you…👍🙏🇲🇽

[@robertoortiz3501]

This was a brilliant lesson, Brian! Thank you for the excellent content...

[@ErnestEbanks-kq4kd]

Really intetesting lesson very informative. I really enjoyed it.

[@policyguy3103]

I'm so mesmerized by the lower fret marker at the 7th fret, I almost couldn't pay attention to the great lesson.

[@GuitarJoLa]

Ooh, that's a good one! Something new and exciting to wrap my head around! 🎶💕

[@pinepienaar7676]

Brilliant lesson, thank you Brian!

[@joev4483]

Yes! Thank you ...

[@masonevans6059]

Great lesson 👍

[@Gitarapiotr]

Great teacher

[@brucewales5965]

Thanks again !

[@joshlamb8163]

Best one ever.

[@emptynest2travel]

Top tier lesson.

[@davrosbuster]

Great lesson as always. I struggle applying these ideas to accompany another singer guitarist. They are often using four or more chords and changing quickly. I know some pentatonic scales, but am unsure which to use over a C,F,Am G Bm progression. Can you recommend a lesson that could help me.

[@ВикторКозлов-ж3д]

Занимаюсь по твоим урокам. Спасибо из россии.

[@jeanlimadossantos3843]

you are the best. I need to pay

[@mattprince9204]

Variations on Three Blind Mice!

[@willischeyltjens2980]

it is in line with KISS principle. Playing the same pattern across the entire fretboard is a challenge.

[@bgabriel28]

Your lessons are interesting, but I don't understand how you're able to do this stuff without knowing all the different scale shapes and chord shapes by heart. When I try to do this I find myself thinking about everything way too much and having to go back to the other lessons you refer to.

[@rebeccaabraham8652]

Got to control my ears - I keep hearing the old song ‘Bobby Shaftoe’….

[@ephraimwarrior6766]

I always do blues 1,4,5 add Nashville number system I never look at tabs no more inless I get stuck l😂

[@user-pi9dc8qr1j]

Although there are plenty of things to learn from this lesson, I felt the 'Three Blind Mice' bit was confusing. As far as I understand it, this wasn't intended to be an arrangement of 'Three Blind Mice' - at least, if it was, then the tune got lost along the way. So - why use 'Three Blind mice'? Was it random? Was it meant to imply 'you can take any simple really basic melody and embellish it to become something else - more interesting'? If the latter, then why the insistence that we 'have to hit the notes of three blind mice at the start of each bar'? Especially as this 'rule' is abandoned by the fifth bar. This wasn't explained clearly enough for me. I get that those notes are chord tones, but why do we 'have' to hit a chord tone right at the start of the bar? Is it to establish the harmonic structure for the listener? Is it to 'stabilise' the melody so we can throw in those runs and chromatic notes? Don't get me wrong - the end result sounded good - I just don't fully understand the structured approach and stages.

[@activemelody]

i didn't use 3 blind mice to start with .. i just pointed out that i was picking one note from each chord that i play on beat 1... when I chose those 3 and played them, it sounded like 3 blind mice, so I mentioned that - something easy that people can remember and identify with.

[@Paul-vy3sn]

I guess I'm brain dead when it comes to building a meaningful melody or playing a solo. I understand everything that was mentioned in the video and I'm familiar with scales and arpeggios. I just don't seem to be able to apply them well, even with this simple lesson. I pretty much just fall into repeating what I see.

[@Texas1836Band]

Ok, I’ve watched the lesson all the way through. To me you’re simply playing major scales over the chord changes and adding occasional chromatic notes. However, what I don’t get is why you decided to start the scale runs where you do. The three blind mice thing, although you say it’s doesn’t have to be with that, I am at a bit of a loss on this of why it is there. I need some logic on this to understand it better. It sounds like to me if I just noodle over the scale of the chord I’m playing over it would get the job done

[@activemelody]

If noodling over the scale of the chord gets the job done, then mission accomplished