How to Improvise a Guitar Solo Video Lecture - The Ultimate Guitar Course

what's going on everybody I would like
to introduce you to Ian stitch he may
look familiar because he's actually the
homeless-looking guy I rescued off of a
raft in the overcast video literally
yeah and today we're gonna talk about a
very common situation for musicians when
you get thrown in to an uncomfortable
position where somebody's playing chords
and they expect you just solo and you
have no idea what's going on no idea
right yeah so we actually have been
through this before that's right our
origin story actually time we met him at
net at a place and I was like hey I'm
just gonna throw down some chords about
don't you why don't you hit a quick solo
I was terrified he was terrified terror
I know and uh we only do it kind of
reenact it yeah basically as you're
playing it G okay - Evan G - so if
that's you this is gonna be the lesson
for you because we're gonna talk about
how you can just jump in to any
situation and at least pretend like you
know what you're doing so you keep up
with another musician so Ian yeah all
right well my specialty or my favorite
thing to do on guitar is to improvise or
Jam and so what we're going to do today
is we want to bring to you the ability
to like Sean said play with a chord
progression so Sean nice at for about I
think six nap hours we designed a chord
progression and we both agreed on it and
yes and the and the chords are it's
going to be G G F F and C C 6 hours of
liberation we did that yeah that is in
the key of C in the key of C ok so as
we've kind of talked about the channel
before I've talked about writing solos
and how you like linked together
arpeggios and scales and chords icings
but this is going to be more kind of
doing things on the fly on the fly which
is again what I love doing cuz when
you're when you're thinking on the fly
it's exhilarating if you can make it
work it's even better when people listen
to you you have a sense of authority
when you play so let's get to it if we
can
alright cool all right so we're going to
discuss the scale yeah it's really all
about common tones common tones have a
key right so if I'm playing we're
playing in the key C I'm gonna play a G
for
sounds good over a G whore let me get
Olli I think a G a G note yes there we
go absolutely gather either harmony
there's a synergy synergy here like Shan
Mian right yeah right your computer
probably melting right now for this
energy and I go to an F I'm gonna guess
that the F we're go with it
how about ASEA totally going to be C so
now we got it done I'll show you the
scale for sure okay so what we're
referring to is a we and we have to have
a scale to work from since from the key
of C we're going to use a C major scale
and Shawn has taught the scale many
times so we're gonna get to it it's
going to start it looks very familiar to
an a minor pentatonic a minor pentatonic
and a minor diatonic because it is so
here we go we're gonna start the fifth
fret here down this is AC major C major
scale thank you uh but we're starting on
the fifth fret here so it can be five
seven eight five seven eight five seven
four five seven five six eight five
seven eight now you probably know that
but we need to learn the name I do want
to make a quick distinction please the
way I played a minor scale in the same
position is actually five seven eight
five seven eight five seven nine five
seven five six eight five seven eight
I'm a Carney exact exact same thing
small town he has freakishly small hands
so that's kind of he likes to kind of
like just choke up yeah I come and I
come back to this node you can even play
you can play the nine friend same
difference what I can do it at her
quanta dimension hook the notes in this
scale and you really want to take time
to learn them because it is very
important Azumi a b c mm g a b c d e f g
a b c now it takes more than just 15
seconds to learn that if you don't so
feel free to pause sure and we'll be
right here but really i think what you
want to do is just take one note and
learn it all through the shape right so
yes so to pick a note from kid
progression genes right so we start on
the G yes that's gonna be the 8th fret
of the B string and also the 5th fret of
the D string these two note in the scale
Hinske orgies right so just kind of like
learning pieces of it and then just kind
like a roadmap you're just connecting
them because net whatever you want
yes well it has to be on top the cord
but yes so we have our G's here and I
guess I'm gonna play a quick G chord and
I'm gonna play from this G to this G and
I'm gonna show it together with the
scale here we got one two ready go
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not only messed up in the first note but
whatever but that's a but what you may
have noticed is he's landing in a
certain spot yes we yes that's actually
really good I when I want to talk about
landing I always talk about planes our
favorite moment in the plane is when we
land so if you're playing front of an
audience you got to give them at landing
that sense of coming home and that is
the node associated with the court
onward spoken like a non member of the
mile-high club fudge group yeah but
anyways so just memorize those spots yes
my rows of spuds right yeah and then
just put them together them together
right yeah so let's get to the F
okay so we got host is useless you a G
for force like yep
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yeah very good the synergy is working
it's hard to believe yes not rehearsed
not really at all
just cuz this guy knows where his notes
are yep actually and D valuable think
it's a valuable thing so we have the G
on the eighth fret V and them and the G
on the fifth fret of the D and the F is
the sixth fret of the b-string if you
want get crazy with they get that pinky
onto the eighth fret of the a-string
right but it's deep and he's a
sprinkling in random notes throughout
that scale but just landing on the ones
when the chord changes and it has the
feel that we know we're doing yes
absolutely it works and I'm gonna create
a little location of the C's do a mark
okay
kinda not first please do okay so the C
here is going to be on the fifth for the
g string and the 8th fret of the E
string so now we have this chord
pression I'm going to hit those core
tones over his chord changes sewn them
together with the common scale and next
thing you know if I could have a time
machine go back in time I would have
blown them away with my solo when I met
them sit back and watch the magic happen
one two ready go
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cool there you go that was so good now
this is movable right
Oh 100% movable so let's move it up us
up a stack right one step so instead of
G F and C if we don't even have to think
about the scale we just move everything
absolutely I'll be a G a G and a D yeah
right shlop a GD or itd so I'm just
gonna play G one two
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there we go
modulation back to G G oh so tasty hat
won't scare measure a minor 7 flat 5
horse player ah see it doesn't work in
every situation but it is very helpful
very helpful so letting your coat your
car cones yes
Ebola in where they are in the scale hmm
that's very important that's it
number one rule number one and I also
humbly humbly want to thank Sean for
having on his channel as you all know
this guy's a juggernaut in YouTube and I
can't thank him enough and then that's
what I wanted to say yeah but please so
this guy is a total fish head and he
actually fish being the big band fish
none I hate actually the taste of real
fish yeah you know meet you yeah some
types my oh I like my you my aunt my
aunt door used to chew fish with her
mouth open and that's in my head and no
that's pretty gross yeah I can't ever
touch fish but if you're into fish and
stuff like that and check out this
channel
yeah grateful dad yep check out his
channel cuz he does does all that stuff
yeah I kind of can't touch that stuff
the way he can a lot like we're right
here by the way you do your stuff I can
so it's a good synergy my youtube
channel if you're interested is stitch
method STI CH method guitar and I will
link you below I really appreciate how
you have me here buddy
and by the way are you sure I'll be
jealous cuz I can actually smell him you
can't yeah
what is it smell like smells like what I
picture like a Roman Roman our problem
in my Roman no Roman statue oh my god
yeah like a rich marble yes like so it
was like gladiator blood I've gotten
that before oh I believe it
oh it's true Felix am I