"Music is communication. A solo should tell a story with a beginning, a climax, and an end . The fastest talker doesn't tell the best story. Would you like to listen to an auctioneer all night? That's bad shredding. Would you like someone to be yelling in your face 2" away from you all night? That's no dynamics. Could you listen to a story
that was written by someone with an overused thesaurus trying to show off their huge vocabulary? That's meaningless wanking. So if you learn the vocabulary by copying solos and learn the grammar by analysing you'll be on your way to being a master improviser/story teller."
You're in the stage of guitar where you're basically learning to speak. music is like a language, and like any language you have to learn words, and then learn how to put those words together to make sentences, and then learn to put those sentences to make paragraphs, statements, etc. you can think of a solo as being a statement, and that solo has to have all of those elements. notes are like words, and scales are basically just collections of words. if you spoke by reciting the alphabet, it would be pretty get boring very quickly.
The key, just like learning a language, is to copy and imitate from those who are more accomplished than you. musically, this means that learning solos is going to help you a lot. if you study and learn solos note-for-note, you're going to learn how to put together notes so that they make sense, instead of just playing up and down the scale.
One more thing...when copping a solo, don't just pay attention to the notes. pay attention to the slides, bends, and other inflections--just like a great speaker or storyteller can phrase things to create a certain effect, a great player can use inflections to say what he/she wants you to hear."
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