Confident Guitar Soloing 

 

From the publishers of Acoustic Guitar

A dozen lessons by master teachers Ron Jackson, Lisa Liu, Pete Madsen, Marcy Marxer, Sean McGowan, Jane Miller, Scott Nygaard, and Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Complete written instruction, notation/tab, and 2.5 hours of accompanying video instruction

Digital edition (pdf and video) available

This complete guide gives you the tools and concepts you need to avoid common pitfalls and to solo with grace and intention. Each lesson has four weeks’ worth of exercises of progressive complexity and difficulty, along with bonus examples and bite-sized tips sprinkled throughout.

These Weekly Workouts will provide a solid foundation for learning to solo on acoustic guitar, whether you’re a fingerpicker or flatpicker, in virtually any style.

What you’ll learn

  • Melodic soloing (Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers)

  • Creating melodic variations (Ron Jackson)

  • Intro to swing soloing (Marcy Marxer)

  • Explore single-note Bach (Scott Nygaard)

  • Learn from Bach’s “Invention No. 4” (Sean McGowan)

  • New chromatic approaches (Sean McGowan)

  • Counterpoint exercises (Sean McGowan)

  • Soloing by shapes (Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers)

  • Expanding on chord shapes (Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers)

  • Building blues and rock solos (Pete Madsen)

  • Using triads to negotiate seventh chords (Jane Miller)

  • Soloing with augmented arpeggios (Lisa Liu)