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guess i shouldnt really learn how to solo since i can't really play guitar very well.
^This.
If you can’t play guitar well then there’s zero point in trying to solo.
You should quit and make more productive use of your time.
^This.
100% except that i enjoy making music?^This.
srs question100% except that i enjoy making music?
I like the way you think though. You think a preschooler shouldn't learn to read because they don't understand the letters? Looking at your first post in this thread, you obviously understand the letters - heck you probably understand more than 50% of us here doing chugga-chugga riffs combined with the occasional one-three-five and running powerchords up to the 24th fret.guess i shouldnt really learn how to solo since i can't really play guitar very well.
100% except that i enjoy making music?
SWEEP TAPS PEOPLE
this is the way
You can give a person a drone and watch them suffer under the weight of mediocrity.Play over a drone
Please go back to thiz post and read it again...let me know how thats not someone actually trying to learn and apply theory. It maybe helpful for other people..for the longest time i learned scales as picking excercises. Nobody ever told me how , when, why we can apply theory and use it to compose music.^^^ But he doesn't want to actually learn anything or put in the effort and he has literally no time. There are dozens of vej-threads just like this one "seeking help". Zero to no interaction on multiple vej-threads where people try to help or engage and he just shoots em the ghost. I've said it before.. He's a troll or in need of serious validation that he's not getting irl.. maybe both. I don't really believe much of anything he says. I listen to exactly 5 albums, have 10 spare minutes, commute 2-3 hours, suck at guitar, make pop-country- hip hop- jazz whatever, and spend shit-tons of money on midi/ plug-ins, etc and although I'm miserable making music, I enjoy it... blah blah ad nauseam.
EDIT> The 'validation' thing is understandable and I prob shouldn't even mention it. Most of us are here seeking some kind of acceptance or affirmation or whatever.. our new gear, our music, etc.. That's what a community of enthusiasts should be about. But the way that vej goes about it is truly unique.
Sorry but this response just went over my head. I wish there was way to explain theory in a simpler way..modes, 3rds, circle of 5th etc...i read and heard it all before.. i am more about how do i use and apply this info to make my own music. Hence the way i put in my post. Solos..how to compose ...knowing the chord tones of the chords you are soloing over...arrange/phrase the notes etc.You know, this thread is going to be a trainwreck anyway...
It's probably worth at least noting how much of a watershed moment "Kind of Blue" was for improvised soloing, and how much of what you consider the framework today really takes root from that. The idea that you build a solo from a scale, for one, rather than from chord tones and extensions of the chord you're playing over at that moment.
I guess I only mention this becase, well, why not throw a little more gasoline on the fire, but also because this is a perfectly valid OTHER way of thinking about soloing - start on a chord tone, build a melody from other chord tones or potential extensions of that chord, and find ways to connect them to the next chord tone in musically interesting ways.
And then there's the fact that all music, solos or otherwise, can essentially be distilled to creating tension and then resolving it. Think about building a sense of movement in a solo by adding or removing speed, going from "tense" notes to consonant notes or vice versa, high notes to low notes, etc. It's like Kurt Vonnegut's quip, "all characters should want something, even if only a glass of water." Every solo should start somewhere, and then go somewhere else. If there's no movement, no sense of going from one place to another, you haven't done anything.
But, like, SO much of "how do you play a solo" is just a microcosm of "how do you write a song." It's really the same problem but in miniature.
I worked as a janitor for a couple of years in my early 20s, and when I got done with my daily work too quickly they'd send me to go sweep the stairwells in an 8 story dorm. I'd go sit at the top of the stairwell and read until 20 minutes to clock-out, then real quick sweep my way down just in time for the building inspector lady to come by and tell me what a great job I'd done. I burned through some very heavy literature in those two years. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're really dedicated, you can spend all of your time reading, and still become a master sweeper.Did this guy ever end up getting the help he needs? You know, sweep tapping.
Dude, I'm not even understanding exactly what you're saying here which is cool... I don't care.G
Please go back to thiz post and read it again...let me know how thats not someone actually trying to learn and apply theory. It maybe helpful for other people..for the longest time i learned scales as picking excercises. Nobody ever told me how , when, why we can apply theory and use it to compose music.