5 Tips on Learning a Guitar Solo

Guitar solo is the favorite part of a guitar player, because this is the part that they are able to impress others and this is the time to show their skills and techniques. But, some players are experiencing difficulties when they are trying to learn a guitar solo. Now I'm going to show you some tips to learn a guitar solo easily.

1. Familiarize. Listen to the solo, familiarize every note and try singing along with it. This helps you to internalize the melody and rhythm of the solo.You can also watch guitar cover of it and identify the finger positions.

2. Use Tabs or music sheets. This can help you in transcribing the solo. But, learning the solo with your ears is more recommended, because using your ears on learning a song can help you to improve your hearing, to have a good ears, which allows you to learn a song by simply listening to it. I didn't say that that using music sheets are bad, it's also good for those who have a short time.

3. Divide the solo. Divide the solo into pieces and learn it piece by piece by piece. Trying to learn to much is not effective. Learn the solo by piece, then connect the pieces to build a guitar solo.

4. Play Slowly First. Play slowly to train your fingers so that they know the correct way to play it. Playing the solo slowly can help your fingers to be familiar to the feels and patterns of the solo.Once you have done this, try to increase the speed.Yo can use a metronome for the tempo.

5. Clean sloppy parts. Once you already know how to play it, but not perfectly. Focus on the parts that are giving you trouble, try to master it. By playing it few times or identify the problem, why you are not able to play it correctly and try to make a techniques/strategy to play it perfectly.