Welcome to Improvisation/Soloing 101. Ready to learn lead guitar? This course is the practical application of the Fretboard Mastery 101 course. You will learn how to use the 5 shapes in a musical context such as playing over chord progressions. The lessons are on the right menu (if you have access).

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• improvise using chord tones in key of C
• improvise using 5 shapes ascending and descending in key of C
• improvise using intervals (2nds, 3rds, etc) in each shape in key of C
• improvise using triads in each shape in key of C
• improvise using sequences in each shape in key of C

Practice tips:

• Don’t worry about modes or scales
• Listen to what you are playing (perhaps record yourself)
• Try to make melodic lines. When you find something try to note it’s shape, pattern of intervals in the idea, etc

Resources:

The 5 Shapes Diagrams in PDF for you to download.

Backing Tracks - you need to loop them in windows media player,  winamp, etc.

Dm-C Backing Track (Acoustic) (use key of C major)

A minor Backing Track (Heavy) (use key of C major)

Rock Backing Track (use key of D major)

External links:
CAGED system (includes diagrams and pentatonic scale shapes) - keep in mind my chord shapes and terminology is slightly different.
Chord Tone Soloing by Barrett Tagliarino
Fretboard Logic by Bill Edwards
Scale diagram generator

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