Play Lead Guitar... The EASY Way!

This lecture takes you through the only scale pattern you'll need to play all the lead guitar in this course. We look at how to play it and how to move it around the neck to suit different situations.

This lecture explains how the scale relates to the chords you'll be playing it over when soloing. Basically we'll be looking at the bare minimum of music theory you'll need to play lead guitar.

Here's where we look at how to tell which fret to start at, when playing the scale pattern, and how this is governed by what chords are in the backing track or song you'll be playing over.

This lecture shows you how to use the techniques used by ALL the pros! We'll look at string bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and how they can be combined to create great sounding licks.

Here's where I show you how to use the scale, and the slurring techniques you've learned, to play licks & phrases that can be chained together into a cool sounding guitar solo. We go through a step-by-step plan: starting with the "raw" scale and gradually tweaking it until we have a great solo.

In this lecture I play some guitar solos using the techniques we've covered. I show you how to use the scale in 3 different ways: as a major tonality scale (in a pop/country/rock setting); as a minor tonality scale (in a classic rock setting); as a blues scale (in a traditional blues setting). You see all the solos played in close-up, as well as getting TABs for all of the licks, enabling you to get a vocabulary of phrases to use in your own solos.

Also, you get 10 jam tracks to experiment with playing solos of your own.

In this final section of the course, I summarise what we've been through & offer some final words of advice. Now you should be able to play some great sounding lead guitar in pretty much any genre of electric guitar... pop, blues, rock, country, or anything & everything else. Well done!