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Chad

Chad

Slender Hobbit
as you all know, I have recently started trying to play lead guitar after 20+ years of playing. I can't say that I have never learned a solo in that time and actually when I started playing in high school, I did learn (or try to learn) all the solos in Guitar for the Practicing Musician. (if it wasn't for that mag, I don't think I ever would have learned to play) But after I switched to bass, I never really tried to get into lead playing.

So over the last few months, I started learning bits and pieces of some solos I really liked or I knew would be easy just to get my feet wet. Then I decided to take on my all time favorite solo. Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall part 2. I know most folks like Comfortably Numb better, but I have always loved Another Brick in the Wall. I have never tried to sit down and learn it so I decided to get on with it.

I broke it into sections and learned them one at a time and then started putting them together and for the first time I made it all the way through bends and all. The funny part is, for years, whenever I tried to play a lead, I had been playing parts of that solo just from hearing it so many times, it was really pretty cool how much of it I "knew" without ever really trying to play it.
 
Awesome! I love that solo too, and like you, tackled it in stages until it all came together.

It has been my staple, go-to solo when first picking up a guitar for many years now.

Good on you, keep at it.
 
Packerbacker said:
I'm in the same boat. I'm just now trying to learn the entire song to songs I like. I know tons of partial tunes.
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You and chad sound like me in this regard. I've learned pieces of solos and songs but never a complete one. I never really needed or wanted to do the paint by numbers stuff I guess.
I do play my own takes with backing tracks, however.
 
Tig said:
You and chad sound like me in this regard. I've learned pieces of solos and songs but never a complete one. I never really needed or wanted to do the paint by numbers stuff I guess.
I do play my own takes with backing tracks, however.
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I don't really learn songs start to finish unless I am gigging and we end up doing a cover or 2 and then I generally don't sit down and figure it out, I usually make someone in the band show me the chord changes and I wing it.

I started tackling other people's solos, because I am lazy and will never sit down and learn theory to learn how to properly play leads. I figured learning some solos I love, will will help me build up different licks and learn what to play over what chord changes, so when I want to play my own solo, I will have some general idea of what I am doing :grin:
 
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WTG Chad. I have been learning to play solos, too, but I have been coming at it from the music theory point of view. I've alwasy learned better when I understand the "why." I may rethink that, now that I have read of your success. I'll see if I can find a good solo to learn while I deal with the theory, as well.

Again, WTG Chad!
 
Stratguy said:
WTG Chad. I have been learning to play solos, too, but I have been coming at it from the music theory point of view. I've alwasy learned better when I understand the "why." I may rethink that, now that I have read of your success. I'll see if I can find a good solo to learn while I deal with the theory, as well.

Again, WTG Chad!
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Thanks.

I am the complete opposite. I need to see it in practice before I can understand "why." That is why I had such a hard time in college. I had a hard time taking classes and getting the info dumped on me without seeing it in a practical setting. It may be why I dropped out, then got a job in IT for about 6 years, then went back and finished a computer science degree.
 
335clone said:
Congrats! Now, what is next ? Keep it rolling.
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I haven't really decided yet. I will probably work on this one the whole way through the song for the next few days, then maybe Time or Shine on You Crazy Diamond. I wish I had the patience for Echoes.
 
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