{"id":1095,"date":"2021-10-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:35:29","slug":"understanding-iconic-solos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/understanding-iconic-solos\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Iconic Solos (Something By The Beatles)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Download The Tabs<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/21113528\/Something-tab-and-staff-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Something&#8221; by The Beatles Solo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you know some scales and lead guitar techniques, but every time you try and come up with your own solos you\u2019re left wondering why you don\u2019t sound like one of the legends. Well, that\u2019s because many of the most melodic lead lines are actually closely linked to the chords they\u2019re played over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Harrison was a master of this very concept. And in this video lesson, Ayla breaks down his iconic solo from the song \u201cSomething\u201d by The Beatles. It is truly a masterclass in understanding how to follow chord changes and create beautiful melodies on the guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike many modern popular songs, \u201cSomething\u201d contains several non-diatonic chords (chords that don\u2019t naturally exist within a key). Playing over chords like these can be particularly challenging because you\u2019ll want to incorporate some notes from outside of the standard major, minor, or pentatonic scales to better fit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout this video, you\u2019ll learn about George\u2019s thought process behind each line in the solo as the different chords pass by. But if you\u2019re more interested in just learning how to play the solo, we\u2019ve included the tabs for you to download here as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are endless lessons we can learn from our guitar heroes and this is just one of them! Try digging into some other great guitar solos you love and see if you can figure out what makes them so amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is George Harrison&#8217;s solo in &#8220;Something&#8221; by The Beatles so great? Learn all about it in this video lesson with Ayla Tesler-Mabe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,275,271,14,28,26,141,219,121,274,273,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}