How To Play A Classic Rock Guitar Solo

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In this free online guitar tutorial, Berklee College of Music Assistant Professor and Berklee Online course author Joe Musella explains the Pentatonic scale: the quintessential tool for playing classic rock guitar solos.

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About Joe Musella:
Joe Musella is a guitarist and music educator active in the Boston music scene. His rock quartet, the Joe Musella Group, performs internationally. Musella's recent collaborations include recording with Joe Vitale, the current drummer for Crosby, Stills and Nash, and with their bass player, David Santos. Other guitar work includes playing for theater productions and with the bands Freestyle and the Ginamark Band. As Assistant Professor of Guitar at Berklee, he developed and teaches the popular Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin course, and is developing a course on Eric Clapton. He is also a Berklee alumnus, and studied with Charlie Banacos and Mick Goodrick.

About Joe's online Classic Rock Guitar course
Learn composition, melodic soloing, chords, and licks in the styles of the classic rock guitar masters: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, The Allman Brothers, Jimmy Page, as well as modern masters Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson.

This course begins with a primer on the blues foundation of rock, covering minor pentatonic scales, 12-bar blues chords and rhythm, classic rock tunes that use the 12-bar form, and licks and scale sequences over the 12-bar blues. Then every week, students will study the selected works of a different classic rock master, including Clapton's "Crossroads" and "Layla," Hendrix's "Wind Cries Mary" and "All Along the Watchtower," Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb" and "Money," Beck's early blues work and later rock fusion tunes, and Page's "Good Times Bad Times" and "Kashmir," to name a few.

Through this analysis, students will learn methods of improvisation, phrasing, scales, chords, rhythms, fretboard mastery, and sound conception that are essential classic rock guitar techniques. The course will also explore modes and their use in rock improvisation.

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in this topic we're going to
at the quintessential tool for playing
classic rock
scale you should know it all over the
neck and the best way to approach that
since there's five notes on the scale
I'm going to give you five different
positions each starting from a scale
tone off the low E string this first one
is off a and I'm gonna play it in a slow
eighth note rhythm and with my right
hand i'm going to be concentrating on
doing alternate picking and you should
do that throughout all five of these
positions so here's the first one
yeah
from the flat 3rd see
from the fourth d
II just the fifth of the scale
and the flat 7 g generally try to keep a
finger to a fret but it's okay if you
switch out of position once in awhile
just do whatever is most comfortable for
you