How To Use Scales To Play Solos On Guitar - Lead Guitar Lesson

In this guitar lesson, I'm going to show you how to use scales to play solos on guitar. We'll cover the basic music theory involved, the five essential guitar scales, how to connect the five scales, and how to apply them to a real song to improvise your own solos. The five scales we'll be using to solo with are the minor pentatonic scale, the major pentatonic scale, the major scale, the natural minor scale, and the blues scale. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. Thanks for watching!

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📖 Video Chapters:
0:00 - Lesson introduction
0:12 - Learn to play guitar by ear (Listen & Play course)
0:28 - What is a Tonic?
1:05 - The difference between relative & parallel scales
2:22 - The 5 essential guitar scales
5:26 - When should you use each scale?
5:54 - Combining all 5 scales
9:02 - How to remember relative major & minor scales
9:43 - How to follow the key
11:42 - How to follow the chords
13:37 - All of this over a real song (example)
16:16 - What about learning licks?
17:22 - What's next?
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[OperatorPuski]

Just thinking about how they decided to make a guitar the way they did hundreds of years ago just blows me away. The arranging of the strings and frets to basically have everything connect and work with 4 fingers is genious.

[rmkpdvl]

After many years of pursuit, I finally found someone who made things precise and easy to understand the soloing concept rather than beating around the bush. Thanks Andrew🤘👍

[timleem]

First lesson I’ve seen combining scales to play a solo rather than just a minor pentatonic and it’s 5 shapes. I like the concept of a mish mash of scales in one area of the fretboard.
Great ! Gonna try it.

[steventaylor]

Excellent instruction, this young man knows what he is doing, and how to coherently lay it out.Steller

[krystofdostal]

Best tutor. It's fascinating how it all comes together with each lesson

[Meltdawg]

You are by far one of the better teachers I've found on here. I have subscribed! thank you for taking the time to show us these things we've been beating ourselves up over trying to learn and understand how it all comes together!

[TheJoshuaJames]

Finally someone make this make sense. Subbed

[coloaten]

Thanks for the lesson and the very useful backing tracks, Andrew, much appreciated.
Completely agree, can't beat putting in the time and hearing what works as you go. It's great fun putting on a backing track and noodling with purpose and intent, the learning happens so much quicker when you put in the reps in a 'real world' scenario than just a metronome!

[anthonys]

Dude, your videos are a gold mine. Keep up the phenomenal work my man. This video is literally the next step I needed to progress further.

[billystack]

Thanks for the video Andrew. This really helps solidify what I've figured out on my own, with some new info. Appreciate the time and effort you took to make it!

[gilgos]

Merci, maybe the best thing I've watched so far 👍🏻🙏

[gergemall]

Super excited about your teaching style. Sounds great.

[creditvirtuoso]

Wow! I’ve been on and off trying to learn how to play the guitar for years and this video has unlocked something for me. Subscribe for sure! Thank you! 🙏🏾🙏🏾 whole new understanding

[leonardocabrini]

Thank you so much, Andrew!! This lesson is exactly what I was looking for. And the way you teach is really understandable.

[johanwithag]

Thanks! I learned a lot from this lesson. Especially combining all the pentatonic related scales and the principle of following the chords of a song. Nice demo of that one.

[stevenbatten]

Great Teaching as always your Awesome Andrew Thanks as always 👍

[balasvsubramaniam-fbfw]

Is a good style of tutorial for guitar lessons thanks Andrew Clarke 👍 from Singapore 🇸🇬

[rcidluv]

Starting to catch on a little bit just need to go slow, & keep watching these videos over & over& over 👍thanks again for all the help Andrew. Maybe I'll learn this theory one day Lol cuz I play by ear.

[john]

Thank you for the very nice lesson! Nice playing.

[StevenSmolak]

Very Good. Very very good; thank you! 👍