Learn How To Easily Play Difficult Guitar Solos And Licks

Want to know how to quickly learn awesome guitar licks and solos even if they are very difficult? Many guitar players struggle to master challenging solos because they exclusively practice their technique in total isolation. Reality is, you can quickly learn any guitar solo by simply combining the techniques within it into a musical context (BEFORE you have totally mastered those techniques).

Watch the video below and I'll show you exactly how to do this so you can learn any guitar solo, no matter how challenging it is:

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Question: “What one thing can I practice to make my guitar solos more expressive?”

Answer: Work on developing better phrasing from the ground up.

Here is an example:

Get better at playing a small amount of notes more expressively.

Try doing this by first improving your vibrato.

Note: Don't make the mistake of using vibrato that is too fast and out of control.

This is when it feels like you are shaking the string but not hitting both the original and new pitch with precision. This feels out of control and sounds undesirable.

Practicing vibrato for just ten minutes per day provides amazing results for your guitar soloing creativity and expression.

Work on this with a metronome set to a slower tempo (very slow at first).

Then begin applying the vibrato on the first beat by bending up to the pitch you are targeting.

Return the string to the pitch you began on when beat 2 clicks.

Keep doing this until it becomes easy to play with controlled and expressive vibrato.

Once you have worked on your vibrato/bending technique, begin integrating your skills together using this exercise:

The point of this exercise is to get more expression from a few notes during a solo before moving on to create a new phrase.

Here is how to do this:

Choose three notes of a scale or pattern of any kind.
Play the notes over and over for several minutes. As you do this, play every repetition as differently as possible using any combination of techniques you can think of.
Repeat step 2, but alter or add one note. Then try again.

This trains you to focus on getting more expressive value from only a few notes.

Result:

Better guitar solos.

How To Improve Your Guitar Soloing Faster

Now you’ve watched the video and know a bit more about how to play better guitar solos.

But should you continue learning how to improve your soloing by yourself or take lessons with a guitar teacher?

Consider this:

You make massive amounts of improvement in your guitar playing by taking lessons with an experienced guitar teacher. This especially applies when (as is the case with experienced teachers) they have already helped countless other players do the same things you want to.

That said:

How exactly does working together with a guitar teacher help you make so much more progress than you would on your own?

I'll tell you one big factor:

Having a great guitar instructor eliminates all the frustration that comes with guessing about how to get better...

Not sure what you should be practicing right now?
Tired of not being able to play that one cool guitar lick at the speed you want?

Your guitar teacher will show you exactly what to practice, how to practice it and when to practice it so you make blazing fast progress.

There's more though.

Your guitar teacher (due to their experience) helps you improve your guitar playing in ways you never considered, helping you make amazing breakthroughs that lead to quick results.

Don't hold off on getting started though.

Your guitar skills only get better when you take the right action to develop them - Waiting only puts off reaching your musical goals.

Take lessons today and finally make a breakthrough in your guitar playing, just like these players did:

“I started lessons when I was a young kid. I was in school. I had a casual teacher, but he only taught us chords, like basic stuff if you want to learn like 3 chord songs. But I wanted more than that, so I went to a local guitar teacher. But he also gave me the same thing. But after like 5 or 6 years of lessons, like I found myself, like if I heard a backing track or something, I couldn’t play with someone. I mean I didn’t feel like a musician, I feel like someone who can just move his fingers from like fret 1 to fret whatever. But with Tom, he’s giving me the tools to become what I want to become, become the musician I want to become. And this is exactly what I want.”

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I like taking lessons with Tom because he gives me what I want. It’s not like something general for everyone. Like if you want to learn blues, he gives you lessons for blues, but I want to become a metal player and also a neoclassical player, so he’s giving me exactly what I need and what I want. And if I have a problem I just post a thread on the amazing forum, and I get like answers, not just short answers, but really detailed answers. I feel like I am taken care of, I don’t have to worry about anything. If I just follow everything word for word what Tom gives me in all of the lessons, that’s if I have time, because they’re so big, I mean every lesson, people think it’s overpriced, but each lesson, if you want to master it, take everything out of it, is going to take you like 4 weeks of 2 hours of work every day.

Mohamed Karim Koleilat, Beirut, Lebanon

“Before the online guitar lessons, I had a lot of trouble with phrasing. I couldn’t make good note choices, I was always fishing for the next note. I was trying to think of ways that I could play, but it didn’t sound good. I didn’t know how to write songs, it was absolutely terrible, everything sounded the same. I couldn’t really… I didn’t feel confident with my playing. I definitely couldn’t build speed for anything, I was really sloppy and I was dissonant… and it was really painful to play.”

I chose Tom Hess because when I read his articles they blew my mind away. I got so much out of that, that I didn’t get anywhere else.

The main reason I like taking lessons with Tom online is because, number one: yes it was the personalized lessons strategy… I read everything about it, and it was so compelling, just like that he really takes everything that I can or can’t do into account, and then he’ll take what I want to be able to do and then basically map out every step of the way until I get there. And that was just really powerful, and that I’d be able to get feedback every 6 weeks, and the fact that we’ve got the forum. We’ve got instant help and they all really know what they’re talking about… they’re not just like anybody… they… I mean some of them are virtuoso guitar players... I mean, they know their stuff and then of course the mindset of this whole environment. The friends I’ve made here just… I can’t really put into words.

I didn’t have a budget when I started. I had a good enough job that I could take lessons for however long I wanted, so that wasn’t a problem, but I feel like I’ve gotten 100 times what I paid you know.

Matteo Miller, San Diego, California, USA

“When I met Tom Hess, I knew that this is the guy. Just going through the evaluation form, all the questions, different questions, and he was digging deeper and deeper into all my goals and all that stuff... and no one has ever done that with me before, so I felt right away that this is the guy.”

The level that I was at before I went to Tom for lessons was that I could play pretty fast, I could play sloppy, I didn’t know nothing about music theory, so I was kind of unbalanced, I was uneven. I was a good player technically, but I knew very little about music theory. So I wanted to even that out, and Tom has helped me, not only evening that out, but also exceeding my expectations. So now I’m playing at a level that I didn’t expect that I could play at. So that’s... I’m very happy with that.

I like lessons with Tom because of the format basically. He gives a variety of formats... not just one format, like video for example, but also pdf files and audio files that you can take with you if you’re doing something else... you have to do labor that day, laundry or whatever... then you can listen to the sessions and while... you can actually benefit when you’re not even practicing, so it’s a no brainer.

Gottfrid Norberg Waxin, Sweden

“I found Tom Hess on the net through articles, and I read quite a few of those before I went to Tom’s website. Even though I’m not a metal player at all, and Tom is obviously a metal player, I could still see that his ideas and way of teaching could really benefit me. So I pretty much signed up for online guitar lessons with Tom straight away once I’d gone through the website, and it’s just been a real eye opener with the way he teaches…”

... the integration of concepts that he’ll give you and having a really structured strategy… not just week to week lessons, but things that - you can see from one lesson to the next - really develop and continue to work on your technique and your theory and aural skills and those types of things. So I’d played a long time… 20 years before I really caught onto Tom, and I’d had a lot of lessons, and I’d taught and played but I can really see improvements in my technique, sweeping, and picking which weren’t strong parts of my playing.

I feel like Tom has a good gauge of where you’re at as a guitar player and what you need, and there just seemed to be so much more stuff in the lessons week to week than what you’d ever get in an hour or so in a one on one lesson… way more. So yeah I think that and the forum. I think, I’d pay the money just for the forum. That alone would be fine… I wouldn’t have a problem with that at all. So that alone is massive!

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Other teachers I’ve had have been good players, and some have become good friends too. But when I’ve started lessons with Tom I’ve got something to compare that to and a lot of it is just sort of teaching songs from week to week… a lot of the lesson will be left up to you… you’ll go to your lesson and they’ll be like what do you want to do today? At the time I said, oh do this song or that song, but with Tom you start to realize that you know, there’s more to it… the goals and you know he’s sort of more in contact with what you want to be able to do as a player, because he’s asking you the questions and then setting up the strategies, so I find that really good.

Yeah I can see more results in 18 months in a lot of areas in my playing than you know 20 years. So it’s sort of, you know, would’ve been great 20 years ago to have met Tom.

Simon Candy, Melbourne, Australia

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