Tying It All Together | How to Solo on Guitar with Scales, Chords and Arpeggios

In today's lesson, we are going to answer a question I get a lot and that is how do I solo with #scales, #chords, and #arpeggios all together? I thought I would go one step further and throw in some chromatic ideas in there too cause they are just so much fun!
Each one of these topics when it comes to soloing is critical to understand. When you can tie them all together then your soloing will definitely break new ground. You would be surprised how a few good techniques well used can really change the way you play guitar dramatically!
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@@BrettPapa Now, what about if I'm playing in A Minor? Do you have a lesson on this (along the same lines as this A Major lesson)?

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@@nspeer55 Aminor Pent OR..... take anything you learned in Amajor... but play Cmajor pentatonic - bingo, works for Aminor.

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