{"id":1399,"date":"2021-12-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2021-12-24T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T22:47:18","slug":"what-makes-a-good-guitar-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/what-makes-a-good-guitar-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes A Good Guitar Solo?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So what is it that makes a guitar solo good? Well, the answer is going to be pretty different depending on who you ask. It\u2019s one of the great things about our instrument \u2013 the guitar is so expressive that you can find truly great guitar solos in every genre of music. So even though a B.B. King solo and a Dragonforce solo have almost nothing in common, both can be regarded as pretty darn good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this lesson, we\u2019ll be talking about the things that separate the good guitar solos from the not-so-good solos. We\u2019ve included a jam track for you to download for this lesson as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20094352\/303786-resource-1621453970-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assignment #1<\/strong>: Name 5 solos that you love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assignment #2<\/strong>: Download Ayla\u2019s jam track<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assignment #3<\/strong>: Play the minor pentatonic scale along to the track<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is more of a theoretical lesson rather than a how-to. Follow the assignments and you\u2019ll see your guitar solos will start improving. It\u2019s all about finding a style that fits you and internalizing the things you love in other players\u2019 solos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What separates a good solo from a bad solo? Find out in this lesson with Ayla Tesler-Mabe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,28,26,272,325,170,56,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}