Guitar Noise Flashback #2 – Turning Scales Into Solos

Although it seems like ages ago, it was just around this time last year that we premiered the first of what has turned out to be a very popular series here at Guitar Noise, our lessons called “Turning Scales into Solos.”

While these lessons have been shorter in length than many of our other song lessons and guitar columns, they have been full of information on how to go about that seemingly impossible task of creating a solo. Plus, each lesson not only has MP3 files demonstrating the ideas covered in that particular article, they all include a “play along” backing track that allows you to create your own solo based on what you hopefully learned.

We’re currently up to Part 8 in this series, but if you’re interested in seeing where it all began, here are the first two, originally posted in the last half of June, 2008: Choosing Colors and One Note at a Time.

Reprinted from Volume 3 #92 of the newsletter. Sign up for the newsletter here.

David Hodge recent photoDavid Hodge is a music teacher with over twenty-five years experience who writes lessons for both Acoustic Guitar and Play Guitar! He is the author of three Idiot's Guide to Guitar books: The Complete Idiot's Guide Guitar, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Rock Guitar, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Bass Guitar. David is also the and co-author of the new The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Art of Songwriting.

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