Have you been playing for a while but stuck in a rut when you solo?
Do you feel like you just play the same solo every time?
Lead Guitar Level 2 is a music based method to teach you the fundamentals of how to play lead guitar. Building on the grounding principals set in Lead Guitar Level 1, this book continues in the same direction adding many new and exciting concepts. Ten lessons to help you not only play a great guitar solo but start to become a musician that understands the music language. This is the second of a series of method books to help you grow with confidence and understanding as a musician and a guitar player. Built from the ground up, through years of teaching hundreds of students, this method helps lead guitar players build a solid foundation.
Learn how to solo and know your options.
Learn how to think like a guitar player and a musician.
Learn lead guitar with regards to melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Understand pentatonic scales and their relationship to chords.
Be able to solo with Major and minor pentatonic scales in all 12 keys.
Learn all 5 pentatonic patterns and how to use the whole neck when soloing.
Learn the difference between the "Blue Note" and the "Blues Scale".
Learn to know what scale to use to play a solo.
Learn Guitar techniques: Hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and bends.
Unlock the fretboard with "Neck Anatomy" and build 3 octave scales.
Learn how to "Play the Changes"
Essential exercises to improve speed and dexterity for real musical use.
How to "Self-generate" music.
Hundreds of examples and licks, tabs and diagrams.
A strong emphasis on rhythm as it relates to playing a solo.
Learn call and response and
ABAC
to organize ideas and build phrases.
These books are the cumulative result of thirty five years of playing guitar, professionally playing for over twenty eight years and performing over two thousand shows nationally. These books were developed for over seventeen years while teaching in NYC averaging over fifty students a week in small groups and private lessons. Hundreds and hundreds of students all having the same goal to learn lead guitar. So many of them having similar issues and misunderstandings about guitar and music.