Practice Scales Like THIS To MASTER Melodic Soloing | Lead Guitar Lesson

[@topherbarrow4631]

I really love your videos. You explain in depth. I've been playing 30 plus years and self taught but can read. It's easy to get lost in theory but when you understand that they are just tools in the box, it comes together. We never stop learning.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@topherbarrow4631 cool comment - thanks 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@andymoore4046]

Charlie your doing great! You have one of the most informative guitar channels on KZbin. As far as I'm concerned it's you & Stitch Method. So ignore the trolls.

[@danbronk9685]

Here is an Idea for ya ... Play the guitar EXACTLY like a beginner would (maybe several different ways you have heard them play) Then show us where we were wrong - and the steps on how to achieve the propersound > all youtube teachers show either the very basics or a completed aspect - what people need to see is something SIMILAR to where they are (sounding poor) and tips to go from where they are to where they should be.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@danbronk9685 heckuva good idea! 🎸🔥🎶

[@zingleraster9124]

Great suggestion!!!!

[@jimwing.2178]

I think that spending any time dwelling on bad is not only a waste of time, it actually makes improvement more difficult. Concentrate on doing the right thing. If you go off the rails, acknowledge it and get right back into doing what you want to do. A student can easily understand how to go wrong - just do something opposite of what the exercise prescribes. For example, the object of Drill #3 is to play short phrases of scale tones ending with a chord tone. If you want to hear how beginners do it, just ascend the scale in sequential order, all eighth notes, and end on a non-chord tone. Why would you want to do that? Instead, put in the reps on doing it right.

[@tomneal1789]

It's not often that you come across a style that is the EXACT way you hope to play some day. I love the blend of so called "boomer" playing (i.e. classic rock bends, chord tone focus and pentatonics) with the 3nps "shred" patterns and legato, bringing it all together with musicality and feel.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@tomneal1789 if that’s boomer playing I’m ok with it (although not quite that old LOL). Thanks for watching and commenting- and good luck with your playing!!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@kenkelly382]

This lesson really spoke to me. Hope I listen. Thanks for pointing the way Charlie.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@kenkelly382 you’ve got this!!! Thanks for commenting. 🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸

[@ericandrews1661]

Very good!

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

Thank you and rock on!! 🎸🎶🔥

[@wagonet]

GREAT lesson.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

Thanks so much!! All the best with your playing!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@jeandominique9353]

That was outstanding. Right on the money. Thank you for the tip.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@jeandominique9353 glad you liked it and I appreciate the nice comment!!! 🎸🔥🎶

[@DanaDeerwester]

Thanks Charlie! Great video 💯💯👏👏🎸🎸💙🤍💜❤

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@DanaDeerwester thank you as always!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@peteperico8814]

Hello again charlie 😇! A very precise tutorial on how playing scales is a big help to improving a beginner's or even intermidiate's finger and picking dexterity or agility's guitar playing 👍! I started playing pentatonic scale and riffs, so i mostly played with 3 fingers and most of the time disregarded playing with my 4th finger ( pinky ) because i felt it's very weak 😳! I would cheat and sometines resort to playing legato just to sound faster. Until i started playing scales and proper positioning using 4 fingers 😇! It helped my guitar playing alot 👍! Thank you charlie 🎸👍!

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@peteperico8814 awesome!! Keep moving forward!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@painter08]

Thanks! Great lesson, getting light bulb shining thru...

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

Thanks so much for the support!!

[@bobbdobb2876]

Right on Thanx Charlie.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@bobbdobb2876 my pleasure!! Thanks for commenting! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸

[@Owl-qh2rh]

Great vid!!! Learning "how to learn" is one of the most important skills in life, in this vid you give us a way of learning for ourselves and we can then make of it what we will.. its lessons like this why i stay subscribed to this channel Charlie! Keep up the good stuff and keep on rockin!!! Love it! Thank you 🙏🕊️

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@Owl-qh2rh love this comment! Thank you and best wishes for your playing!!! 🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸

[@Owl-qh2rh]

Thank you Charlie! Really appreciate it 👍🌋🎸💥✨​@@CharlieLongGuitar

[@GerryBlue]

Very useful video, thanks!

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@GerryBlue my pleasure! Glad you can use it!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@trusarmor4957]

amazing ideas here

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@trusarmor4957 wow thank you!!!! All the best with your playing! 🎸🔥🎶

[@masterbuilder3166]

Excellent lesson Charlie. Thank you fren 💯

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@masterbuilder3166 thanks for the comment and all the best with your playing!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸

[@billwhite9701]

Great Video Thank you

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@billwhite9701 thanks for the comment!!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@davidbachy5627]

Great stuff here!

[@kenlelon369]

Homerun, Charlie. Now you're starting to break through to the other side where there is little available information. This is where the other teachers leave you on your own. I think many of us who are solid intermediates, but not quite advanced fretboard scholars, need guidance here more than ever. The only thing left is to plug in arpeggios and triads, I suppose. (another lesson idea?) You answered Many questions with this one BUT feel free to expand in this area at will!

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@kenlelon369 this one is for you! Keep the suggestions coming - very helpful!!! 🎸🔥🙏🔥🎸

[@kenlelon369]

@@CharlieLongGuitar I guess it's right in front of me and I can't see it.

[@kenlelon369]

And I almost forgot to say - Thank You, Sensei

[@DoctorMcFarlandStudios]

Nice Carvin :)

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@DoctorMcFarlandStudios it’s been a GREAT guitar 🎸 🎸🎸

[@MrCarlos1335]

GOOD JOB, WELL DONE, YOUR LESSON IS A WAKE UP MOMENT,THANK YOU.

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@MrCarlos1335 thanks and glad you liked it!!! 🎸🎶🔥🎶🎸

[@painlesstragedy]

pretty good lesson carefully noted I do something as a lick. most of the time my hand only does the motions fluidly one way unless I use legato. I know the trick lies in alternate hybrid picking for speed but am no master not yet of that technique may take me 30 years to perfect a skill like that!

[@NotBenCoultry]

I'm realizing I just wrote a field report here like I'm on reconnaissance... Something I just discovered on speed practice that I reeeally wish I knew long ago both for me and for teaching: switch picks. Once the swing width is adjusted it's easier to play fast with a thick pick, so I started working on the Am7 arpeggio with a metronome at 80 and playing 16ths, using a fender medium. Unless you really choke up on that it flexes too much for high speeds. Once I got 4 clean, unhurried up-down repeats I bumped it up a few bpm and repeated the thing. Every time I struggled I came at it with a thicker pick and got it clean, then notched it into more difficulty in steps with progressively thinner picks til I was doing it with the fender medium cleanly again and kept speeding up. You can set your own bpm by only picking 16ths without fretting anything til the speed feels natural, then add the fretting. Over the last two days I took it from my struggle point, which began around 106bpm 16ths all the way up to reliable 128bpm with a stretch to 130 if I use a 1.5 to 2mm pick. Kinda forces you to examine the details of your picking mechanics which is becoming extremely beneficial. Also, achieving high speed in one position doesn't guarantee it elsewhere bc of the changing forearm angle

[@NotBenCoultry]

OH I kept meaning to ask if you've messed with this - a 12457 arpeggio. It's basically a sus2sus4 or maj 9, 11, but it's also all the notes in common between Major, Melodic minor(b3), and Harmonic minor(b3 b6). Makes for some really interesting tonal shifts.

[@_LoneWoulfe]

Great lesson Charlie! Thanks. What are your thoughts on call and response?

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

Call and response is a wonderful way to keep solos melodic. Love it!! 🎸🔥🎶🔥🎸

[@ripperthecrooks6428]

That tone is sick. Is it digital modeler? Thanks awesome playing my man !!

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

@@ripperthecrooks6428 thanks for the comment! I’m using the Tonex pedal in the video… captures of a Fender Deluxe Reverb and a Marshall JCM800. 🎸🔥🎶

[@marLamaDeo]

Fantastic lesson as usual. Can I ask for a VERY specific request? Raking into long held notes or big bends is insanely important for emotional and passionate playing but I’m really struggling with it. I can see most people do it with picking hand palm muting but I’m just not getting it!

[@CharlieLongGuitar]

I’ll do a video on phrasing soon…in the meantime try muting the strings you want to rake with your Fretting hand - not the picking hand. 🎸🔥🎸

[@marLamaDeo]

@@CharlieLongGuitar 🙏

[@jaynawilliams8923]

Learning the scales and always using them is necessary but, after a while makes it so boring you will be desparate to try something else, anything else. Oh no, not again, not the same notes in the same place over and over again. That is why learning scales is so important. It will force you to start developing, trying different things, as you learn to hate the scales, the better you will become. And that is how you improve. At least I did.

[@donkiddick3562]

Great advice, Charlie. Can I ask, at 2.27, you play that run, what type of pedal do I need to get that tone? Apart from your skill, obviously, I get confused whether I should be looking at sustain, overdrive or something else.

[@ralphditchburn1456]

I not do notes of chord changes? Just E G# B