Hails doods. Thnx for the kind words yeah um basically shredding and soloing doesnt come easy. All i ever wanted was to become a great guitarist and basically a metaller. About a year ago i was absolutely useless at guitar i could play basic stuff but my aspirations was to become a shredder. This what ive done aint no where near technical to what i can acheive in mebe 5 yrs. I only practise for a mere few hrs a day do shredding warm ups, scales, practise riffs and make my own riffs. A tip to learning to solo is do it yourself i learnt to shred myself i started to on day sit down and i fort im gonna experiement with the fret board i found out i could do more than really i should of. Its natural cos my teacher sed i can pick things up very quick musical instruments are natural to me i played sax for 8 years and was very gud after 3 yrs. So guitar isnt much different to me except theres alot of new rudements i had to learn like scales. Pentatonic scaling is the place to start learning to solo, basically my teacher taught me tricks on guitar to mix with the scale so when u shred a pentatonic i used other techniques in order to make that solo. Another tip is get backing tracks and learn them like i do and record them! then keep reapeating it play it back loads get into the moood have a feel for the song and make a wacky solo for it. Its bollocks u dont need to play for years and years im in a metal band i started in it when i knew nothing about guitar i learnt alot this way. Just have heart and a will to push yourself and u dont need to be like john petruci and practise allll day and knaker urself. The pentatonic is easy tho also learn oxydiolian i may have spelt this wrong chaps lol but this mixed with pentatonic can give sum cool results. Also use alot of pull off and hammer ons and legatto. I tend to legatto alot in the intro and begining it snds cool. But you all can do solos as well as make cool riffs u just need the imagination and heart to do it not practise till you die and find you cant play jack shite. And dont need to read alot of homework cos its within you a teacher can only guide u, the work is upto you.
Adam Kenyon
