Now we're going to talk about soloing.
I'm sure some of you have heard the term before.
Soloing might be described as playing a spontaneous melody.
For the songs that we learn in this course,
the melody was composed prior to us playing it.
We learned it from the music.
Some of you might have learned it by ear.
When you solo, you don't have any idea of what you're about to play.
But you do have an idea, roughly,
of the notes that you're going to use or the scales that you're going to use.
For the purposes of this demonstration I'm going to use one of the songs
that we learned, The Blue Guitar Blues.
Often in the blues, when you play blues and you play blues form, it gives you
the option or the opportunity to solo at some point in the song.
Sometimes you play the melody, then you play a solo,
then you play the melody again, then you end it.
Fortunately, I've already recorded the power chords for that song in my looper.
What I'll demonstrate for you now is I'm going to take a solo over those chords.
Now if you remember the melody for that song was based on the minor pentatonic,
in this case it was a G minor pentatonic.
So that's the scale that I'm going to use to solo over this song.
Now when you solo,
you don't really have an exact idea of what you're about to play.
Now that might seem kind of scary to some people.
The idea is, you just have fun, and play random notes.
You can play patterns, but the idea is just experiment with it,
have fun, and make sure you feel free and
you'd be surprised to see what you can come up with.
So once you learn the scale really well, try and play patterns within the scale or
choose random notes from the scale, for now.
But the idea is just to have fun.
So here goes.
This is the blue guitar blues, a solo.
[SOUND] One, two, three, four.
[MUSIC]
So, that was a solo using the G minor pentatonic over a song,
the blue guitar blues.
Now, that was using notes from the pentatonic.
I was using some random notes.
I was using some space in between those notes.
I was even making some patterns.
I was going high.
I was going low.
The bottom line is, I was having fun soloing.
Now, that's something you should try, too.
Make sure you know the fundamental scale, the G minor pentatonic.
And you have an mp3 that you can download with that track on it,
that I made using my looper.
And you can play along with that and just experiment using the pentatonic.
Listen to how some of the notes sound.
Try and create some space in there.
Try and repeat some notes.
Try and create a pattern.
And it can be completely random, but the bottom line is have fun.