How to Improvise a guitar solo

When we want to improvise a solo on a piece of music, the first thing we need to know in what tone we're playing, it seems a silly thing but it is not at all, believe me. I saw and heard improvise ... alas, not knowing the slightest shade of the base on which to improvise!!!! Everything true!! If the piece is C major, I can use the C major scale, the pentatonic C major, also other, but now let's stop here!!!!!! The important thing to know is on what agreements we are playing, we have already harmonized arrangements that are formed on the C major scale (C major-D min E min-F maj-G maj A min-B dim) Example: if the piece sounds so : C maj-F Major G Major, a classic example of 1st-4th-5th of the scale as we can figure out which notes of the scale we have to use??. First we need to already know the blocks, the box, the positions of the scale of the whole handle of chitarra.This is crucial, because I can play a C in different positions on the handle, depending on the position the note passes from most severe to more acute, we choose us!!! The important thing to explain in the simplest way possible is that we landing on a note in the chord that is playing the base of the piece. In C major, I can leave with me or do or sol (the notes of the chord), when I switch F Major, I can not stay on or do or do (the notes of the chord), between an agreement and the other can multimillion on the scale, but when the solo falls on a chord change I have to respect the rule above. It is not as complicated as it sounds, try playing a known piece, what you want, and you will find that what I am saying is what they do the great guitarists Then everything else comes from the soul and feelings that one has, and then, everything is wonderful, and when it'll take you no more than you'd stop.

Come improvvisare un assolo di chitarra

Quando vogliamo improvvisare un assolo su un pezzo musicale,per prima cosa dobbiamo sapere in che Tonalità stiamo suonando, sembra una cosa stupida ma non lo è affatto, credetemi. Ho visto e sentito improvvisare ahimè..., senza sapere minimamente la tonalità della base sui cui improvvisare!!!!!!!!!!!!Tutto vero!!!! Se il pezzo è DO maggiore, posso utilizzare la scala di DO maggiore, la pentatonica di DO Maggiore, a anche altre, però adesso fermiamoci qui!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! La cosa importante da sapere è anche su quali accordi stiamo suonando, abbiamo già armonizzato gli accordi che si formano sulla scala di DO maggiore ( DO magg-REmin-MImin-FA magg-SOLmagg-LAmin-SIdim ) Esempio: se il pezzo suona cosi:DO magg-FA magg-SOL magg, un esempio classico 1°-4°-5°della scala come riusciamo a capire quali note della scala dobbiamo utilizzare???. Per prima cosa dobbiamo già conoscere i blocchi , i box, le posizioni della scala su tutto il manico della chitarra.Questo è fondamentale, perchè io posso suonare un DO in diverse posizioni sul manico, a seconda della posizione la nota passa da più grave a più acuta, lo scegliamo noi !!!!!!! La cosa importante per spiegarla nel modo più semplice possibile è che dobbiamo appogiarci su una nota dell'accordo che sta suonando la base del pezzo. Nel Do magg posso partire con do o mi o sol (le note dell'accordo), quando passo a FA magg,mi posso fermare sul fa o la o do (le note dell'accordo), tra un accordo e l'altro posso svariare sulla scala, ma quando l'assolo cade su un cambio di accordo devo rispettare la regola di cui sopra. Non è complicato come sembra, provate a suonare un pezzo conosciuto, quello che volete voi, e vi accorgerete che quello che vi sto dicendo è quello che fanno i grandi chitarristi Poi tutto il resto viene dall'anima e dalle sensazioni che uno ha,e alloraaaaaaaaaaa, tutto diventa meraviglioso, e quando la cosa ti prende non smetteresti più.



               

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Joe Perry - Steven Tyler The Aereosmith

During Joe Perry's early years he formed a band with Tom Hamilton called The Jam Band. Steven Tyler, Joe, Tom, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer eventually joined and the band became Aerosmith. While initially dismissed as Rolling Stones knock-offs, the band came into its own during the mid-1970s with a string of hit records. Chief among these successes were Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976), thanks largely to the prevalence of free-form, album-oriented FM radio. The group also managed hit singles on the radio with songs like "Dream On", "Same Old Song and Dance", "Sweet Emotion", "Walk This Way", "Back in the Saddle", and "Last Child".
During this time, Perry and vocalist Steven Tyler became known as the "Toxic Twins" for their notorious hard-partying and drug use. Aerosmith's crowd earned the nickname "The Blue Army", so called by the band after the seemingly endless number of teenagers in the audience wearing blue denim jackets and blue jeans. The audience was abundantly male with long hair.
Following Rocks, the group began to stumble - drug use escalated and the creative process became hampered by strained relationships within the band. This was highlighted during the recording process for their next album, which was recorded at an abandoned convent in upstate New York. During their time there, Tyler and Perry would spend much of the time in their rooms, getting high, away from the rest of the band, and would often record their parts separately. The band, hampered by heavy drug use and distracted by hobbies such as driving fast cars on the nearby parkways and shooting high-powered firearms in the building's attic, struggled to come up with material. Draw the Line, released in 1977, became a hit nonetheless, going double platinum. However, it was not as successful as their prior efforts, with the singles "Draw the Line" and "Kings and Queens" both charting in the Hot 100, but failing to crack the Top 40. On the album, Perry sang lead vocals on the track "Bright Light Fright". The band toured throughout 1977 and 1978 in support of the album, but increasing violence at concerts (such as bottles, cherry bombs, M-80s, and firecrackers being thrown on-stage, including several notorious incidents at The Spectrum in Philadelphia) as well as the band's heavy drug use began to mar the performances. In 1978, Aerosmith released the live collection Live! Bootleg, released the stand-alone single "Chip Away the Stone", and starred as "The Future Villain Band" in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. For the film, the band released a cover of The Beatles' "Come Together", which would become the band's last Top 40 hit for nearly a decade.
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Eddie Van Halen

Nato ad Amsterdam visse a Nimega sino all'età di 7 anni. Si avvicina alla musica suonando il pianoforte e la batteria. Trova però la sua vera vocazione a 12 anni, iniziando a studiare la chitarra del fratello maggiore Alex. Al momento di formare il primo gruppo, in accordo con il fratello, Eddie passa definitivamente alla chitarra e Alex alla batteria. Il 3° fratello Stefan invece si destreggia come tecnico.

Emigrato nel 1962 con la sua famiglia a Pasadena, negli Stati Uniti, inizia a focalizzarsi sulla musica, esercitandosi assieme al fratello Alex. Entrambi crebbero musicalmente molto in fretta e sviluppano i propri stili studiando prevalentemente Rock, in particolar modo i brani dei Beatles e dei Led Zeppelin.

Nella metà degli anni settanta, i fratelli danno vita ai Van Halen, assieme all'estroso bassista Michael Anthony e all'istrionico cantante David Lee Roth.

La carriera dei Van Halen è caratterizzata da successo immediato e il quartetto sarà applaudito per le sue indiscusse doti musicali. Lo stile innovativo del chitarrismo di Eddie, così come il talento di showman e la presenza scenica di Roth, portano velocemente i Van Halen in cima alle classifiche mondiali.

Tra le canzoni emblematiche del suo stile è da citare Eruption, un brano strumentale per chitarra solista (con un intro di batteria) in cui dà sfoggio di tutti i suoi trucchi pirotecnici e del suo sound personalissimo, ma anche Jump (una delle hit più trasmesse negli anni ottanta) e You Really Got Me cover dei Kinks sono enormi successi. Nella band, egli suona dal disco 1984 anche le tastiere.

Una delle tecniche che lo resero popolare fu quella del tapping, che consiste nel suonare la chitarra con entrambe le mani sulla tastiera, il che permette di suonare intervalli inusualmente ampi per lo strumento e produce un suono molto particolare. Questa tecnica sembra che sia stata da lui "trovata" per caso mentre cercava di riprodurre l'assolo di Jimmy Page, uno dei suoi idoli, in Heartbreaker. 

Brian May The Queen

Brian May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born in Hampton, London and attended Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School) During this time he formed his first band with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named 1984 after George Orwell's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ordinary Levels and three A-Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. He studied Mathematics and Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a B.Sc. degree with honours.
Brian May formed the band Smile in 1968. The group included Tim Staffell as singer and bassist, and later, drummer Roger Taylor, who also went on to play for Queen. The band lasted for two years from 1968 to 1970, as Staffell left in 1970, leaving the band with a catalogue of nine songs. Smile would reunite for several songs on 22 December 1992. Taylor's band The Cross were headliners and he brought May and Staffell on to play "Earth" and "If I Were a Carpenter". May also performed several other songs that night.

Brian May has been referred to as a virtuoso guitarist by many publications and musicians. He has featured in various music polls of great rock guitarists, and in 2011 was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Former Van Halen vocalist Sammy Hagar stated, "I thought Queen were really innovative and made some great sounding records.. I like the rockin' stuff. I think Brian May has one of the great guitar tones on the planet, and I really, really love his guitar work." May mainly used the "Red Special", which he designed when he was only 16 years old. It was built with wood from an 18th century fireplace. His comments on the guitar:
"I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike."http://www.booking.com/index.html?aid=369041

Jeff Beck The Yardbirds

Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born on 24 June 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck at 206 Demesne Road, Wallington, England. As a ten-year-old Beck sang in a church choir. As a teenager he learned to play a borrowed guitar and made several attempts to build his own instrument, first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes for the body and an unsanded fence-post for the neck with model aircraft control-lines and frets simply painted on. When fabricating a neck for his next try he attempted to use measurements for a bass guitar.
Beck has cited Les Paul as the first electric guitar player who impressed him. Beck has said that he first heard an electric guitar when he was six years old and heard Paul playing "How High the Moon" on the radio. He asked his mother what it was, and after she replied it was an electric guitar and was all tricks, he said, "That's for me". Cliff Gallup, lead guitarist with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, was also an early musical influence, followed by B.B. King and Steve Cropper.
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Eric Clapton Slow Hand "God"

Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929 d. March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 – 15 May 1985), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec. Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, who was stepfather to Patricia Clapton and her brother Adrian, believing they were his parents and that his mother was actually his older sister. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather). Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, leaving young Eric with his grandparents in Surrey.

Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his thirteenth birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently. Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practised long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. He preserved his practice sessions using his portable Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder, listening to them over and over until he felt he'd got it right.

After leaving Hollyfield School, in Surbiton, in 1961, Clapton studied at the Kingston College of Art but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art. His guitar playing was so advanced that by the age of 16 he was getting noticed. Around this time Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond, and the West End. In 1962, Clapton started performing as a duo with fellow blues enthusiast David Brock in pubs around Surrey. When he was seventeen years old Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group, "The Roosters", whose other guitarist was Tom McGuinness. He stayed with this band from January through August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a seven-gig stint with Casey Jones & The Engineers.

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