The most popular instrument of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was the guitar, in particular - its electronic version. There are several reasons: both mobility, and ease of learning, and application in certain genres, in particular, in rock. However, despite its apparent simplicity, this instrument allows you to perform virtuoso passages, the so-called solos, during which the guitarist becomes more important than the front man (singer). In performing these passages, guitarists use a number of techniques.
It is necessary
- Electric guitar;
- Combo amplifier;
- Effects processor;
- Cables;
- Collection of works for electric guitar.
Instructions
Step 1
Connect your guitar to your amp and processor with cables. Check out the tuning of the guitar.
Step 2
Do a few tedious but necessary exercises before debriefing your solo. Play two or three major scales, then two or three minor scales, and two or three scales in pentatonic scale. Play slowly, the main thing in the warm-up is not speed, but the correct position of the hand and fingering.
Step 3
Open the songbook and choose what you like. In addition, for a beginner guitarist, it is better to select pieces with a solo of a small volume - 12-16 bars. Now the solo is your elephant and you have to eat the elephant. Of course, in pieces, chewing thoroughly. To do this, play the first 2-4 measures at a very slow pace. When playing for the first time, it is important to observe the rhythm and fingering. Of course, you cannot smear past the notes either.
Step 4
When replaying, in addition to the previous moments, pay attention to specific techniques: bends ("pull-ups"), slides, and so on.
To bend, swing the held string across the neck.
To play vibrato, wiggle your finger while holding the string as if it were trembling.
Slide, slide, glissando are the same technique. Smoothly walk the sounding string (or strings) to play. Unfeasible on open strings.
There are a number of other tricks and techniques that you may come across. It is better to sit a little longer over each problem area, be it not even a beat, but half a beat, and drive it several times at different rates.
Step 5
When the first four measures are easy to play at a slow and moderate tempo, play the fragment at the tempo of the piece, and finally slowly again. Start the next four-measure, practice it in the same way, then play eight measures. And so on until the end of the solo.
Step 6
When the solo is played completely at a slow to medium tempo, play it fast, and again at a slow pace before the end of the session.
