Why Your Guitar Solos Don't Sound Musical (And How to Fix Them)
About this episode
Steve Stine discusses how to make guitar solos sound more musical by focusing on timing and groove.
Send Steve a Text Message Your guitar solo can have the “right” notes and still feel wrong. The gap is usually groove. We jump into a practical, no-hype approach to soloing that starts where real music starts: locking to the beat. Using a “Groovy Fine Blues in B Minor” backing track as the example, we focus on finding the quarter note, then treating the eighth note as the true pulse for most lead guitar. From there, we show how the B minor pentatonic becomes a usable palette when your timing ...
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