• About Guitar Solos
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First of all, I'm not sure if I should be posting here for this, but this is the music room so I don't know where else to post and I don't want to get banned. Bu I've gotten the first little solo part to Carry On by Avenged Sevenfold. I can play it correctly, but every time I try to speed up my fingers just don't go as fast as they should. I've practiced and practiced but I just couldn't get it. Then I tried looking up videos on how to play solos faster... No help at all. So, if they're any guitarists out there that have any tips or know something that I may be missing (which I probably am), can you please give me some advice?
Slow down the song at a speed you are comfortable with. Make sure you can play the solo at that speed perfectly. Then increase the speed a bit. Repeat until you reach the song played at normal speed.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;39951372]Slow down the song at a speed you are comfortable with. Make sure you can play the solo at that speed perfectly. Then increase the speed a bit. Repeat until you reach the song played at normal speed.[/QUOTE] Well I've been doing that ever since the song came out...I guess I can just keep trying.
The only shortcut to be able to play guitar solos fast are to utilize hammer-ons and pull-offs, and well constant practice.
A few tricks I've learned over the years -Warm up first. Don't just try to jump into the solo without doing a few exercises -Pick part of the section you are having trouble with and play it at a pace you are comfortable with, over and over again without stopping. If you can play it a few times through without messing up, speed up the pace -Part of the problem may be your gear. If your guitar doesn't have good pickups, or your amp doesn't have a good high-gain setting, it will not give you a satisfying sound even if you are playing it well -Really notice what it is about the solo you are messing up on. Maybe a certain parts requires you to stretch your fingers too far, or it has a weird pattern to it. Pay attention, and practice certain things that you are lacking in
1. stop playing shitty a7x songs. 2. it takes years of practice to play like that. just keep working on it
I had problems mastering the Luck as a Constant solo, being too slow etc. What I did was use a metronome and first put it at half speed, then gradually increase the speed. Eventually you'll learn [editline]18th March 2013[/editline] Basically what Mr._N said hahah
Just keep practicing. You could learn economy picking (assuming you aren't using it already) which is a faster way of playing but it would probably take even more time than learning it with alternate picking. I think that gates uses alternate picking pretty much all the time though so it won't sound as staccato as when gates plays it.
first you as many above said you just want to start at a speed you're comfortable with. when you're first learning it, it's not really even important to stay in time or anything, not yet. you just want to get the notes right so that you build muscle memory. after you do that, try setting up a metronome at a low bpm(beats per minute. IE speed) and playing to it. after you can do that at a low bpm, raise it up 10 or 20. practice that until you're good at it and repeat, speeding it up as you get better. sometimes it helps to make the bpm higher than what you're trying to learn at (im terrible at explaining things so bear with me here) for example, lets say the actual song is 150 bpm. If you're first learning it, its gonna be hard to play at that speed. so, depending on how long you've been playing, you're gonna want to bring down the speed a little so you can actually learn it. so I'd say bring it down maybe 20-30bpm. what ever is comfortable for you. so now you're at lets say 100 bpm. set up your metronome, and try playing the part to it. just focus on getting all the notes right, dont rush. If you feel like you're rushing, then maybe slow it down more. once you can play it perfectly at that bpm, bump it up to where its a little challenging, but you can manage it. if you're having trouble lets say around 120 bpm, sometimes it helps to try playing a little faster than that, and it makes 120 bpm feel easier. so set it to 130 bpm or even 140 bpm, attempt playing to it, probably too fast. now go back to 120 bpm. it should feel easier. also practice scales, practicing with a metronome helps a heap too. it can help you stay in time and keep track of how fast you can comfortably play each week/month etc
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