One of the most impressive things to watch a guitar player do is switch effortlessly between rhythm and lead guitar. In this video, I’ll show you how to start playing solos, riffs, and licks in the gaps between your guitar chords. There are a thousand different ways to approach this topic, but here, we’ll be making use of the chord roadmaps that you should be familiar with from other videos of mine. I’ll even show you how to connect your minor pentatonic scale to your bar chords so you can start using a basic scale shape to improvise with as well!
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. Thanks for watching!
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— Videos I referenced in this lesson —
Chord Roadmaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYs_0Rx3CTI
The strings I use:
► https://stringjoy.com/
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Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:34 – The problem (and how we’ll solve it)
1:20 – Review of the 2 chord roadmaps
2:55 – Adding to the chord roadmap (A-string root)
4:14 – What’s the point of this?
5:18 – Example with a chord progression
6:37 – One important rule
7:11 – This feels too simple
7:30 – Using the other chord roadmap (E-string root)
8:50 – Example with a new chord progression
9:43 – How to use this in other keys
10:44 – Taking things higher (vertical scales)
11:19 – Building a home base with the pentatonic scale
12:43 – Adding the 4 & 7 back into the scale
13:45 – How do we use this new shape?
14:31 – Example with another chord progression
15:48 – What comes next? (covering the entire fretboard)
17:00 – Same scale with the E-string chord roadmap
18:06 – Should we keep going with this series? (Let me know!)
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— Gear I used in this video —
Guitar: Suhr Antique Classic S
Amp: Dr. Z EZG-50
Pedals: Origin Effects Cali76 Deluxe, Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
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Music Credits:
Smoothie by Popoi | https://soundcloud.com/popoimusic
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