Rock Soloing Series

15 Lessons Covering What You Need to Know to Solo like a Rock God

A lot of great content but a lot of old videos.

Potential

This series has a lot of potential and could be really fun for myself and students.  I'm thinking live classes where I learn and dissect solos each week.

Start with either:  Symphony or Rock You Like a Hurricane

Summer Song - Landing Page Started - Strange location - Live Stream folder (not members live stream)

Summer Song Members

Rock You Like a Hurricane

These need to be organized in order of difficulty.

 

Which lessons are the best to sell series/course? (should have good quality video and breakdown notation files)

Maybe a lesson on improvising using scales and arpeggios.  I have a few done now.  Find them and list them here:

 

Note:  2 videos per section looks much better then 3 as far as video thumbnails are concerned.

 

Full Solos

  • Broken by Seether
  • Lost by Coldplay
  • One by Metallica (Intro solo)
  • Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
  • Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC

Cool Licks

  • Joe Satriani one string G Blues scale lick from Summer Song solo
  • Marty Friedman (Megadeth) repetitive metal/rock/blues riff
  • Classic Rock Riff #3 - Hotel California - 1 measure riff from solo (find out which player, joe walsh?)

2 String Arpeggio Licks

  • Kirk Hammet arpeggio lick from Master of Puppets
  • Sultans of Swing outro solo - Classic Rock Riff 1 - YouTube Vid
  • Hotel California outro solo

3 String Arpeggio licks

  • Kirk Hammet sweep picking arpeggio lick from Leper Messiah
  • All That Remains sweep picking arpeggio lick

Bending

  • Bending String Guitar Lesson - intro
  • Classic Rock Riff 2 - Led Zepplin (Jimmy Page) riff.  I think.  Used in a lot of solos.

Tapping

  • Tapping Basics (includes Eruption)
  • Advanced Tapping (Jeff Loomis of Nevermore)

Bending

What bending is, how to practice bending and 2 cool rock riffs with bends

Arpeggios - 2 String

Arpeggios are cool:  Here are 3 examples of Arpeggios played on 2 strings

Licks

Short riffs you can use everywhere

3 String Arpeggios

Arpeggios played on strings 1, 2 and 3

Two Weeks by All That Remains - solo excerpt using 3 string arpeggios

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Video Recorded:  Oct. 28, 2009

Metallica - Kirk Hammet solo excerpt

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Video Recorded:  Jan. 8, 2008

Tapping

Arpeggios played on strings 1, 2 and 3

Tapping Basics - Includes Eruption

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Video Recorded:  Sept. 12, 2009

Nevermore - Jeff Loomis

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Video Recorded:  Sept. 13, 2009

Full Solos

Varying degrees of difficulty

Shook Me All Night Long Part 1

AC/DC Angus Young solo using bending, pentatonic and blues scales.

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Video Recorded:  Nov. 3, 2008

Shook Me All Night Long Part 2

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Video Recorded:  Dec. 6, 2008

Nothing Else Matters Part 1

Although this is Metallica this solo is actually played by James Hetfield

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Nothing Else Matters Part 2

Although this is Metallica this solo is actually played by James Hetfield

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Broken Solo

This is an easy one by the band Seether.  Also has a fun fingerpicked verse that will be part of the fingerpick series.

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Video Recorded:  March 1, 2009

Lost Solo

This is a fairly easy one from the Coldplay song called Lost.

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Video Recorded:  March 5, 2009