How A 58-Year-Old Guitarist Can Break Out And Solo

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Got this soloing question from a subscriber:

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I will give you a little background. I am 58 this Thursday. I played for about 2 years from 93-95. I picked it up again the Sunday after thanksgiving in 2022 and I haven’t put it down since.

I try to dedicate 8-10 hours a week. I been watching your videos along with others the whole journey. My Brother in-law is a fantastic lead guitarist, but a horrible teacher. Bottom line my rhythm guitar playing very comfortable. I would love to be more adventurous and break out with my soloing.

Thank you for taking the time

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First off, happy birthday!

That’s awesome you got back into guitar and it sounds like you are loving it. 8-10 hours a week is a solid amount.

Keep that up!

Many guitarists are comfortable playing rhythm all day long, but they often feel it gets boring.

One of the easiest and fastest ways to start getting adventurous with lead guitar is to begin adding 1-5 new licks to your soloing practice biweekly.

While there are many more, here are 3 quick ways this can help you:

1) Licks get you speaking the language of music fast. This means you won’t have to spend a ton of time memorizing scales or theory. You essentially “skip-over” this part and get straight to improvising.

2) Licks can help you speed up your hands. There are specific ways to practice them that can move this along even faster as well.

3) When you know how to connect them to the chords, this is where things can really start to take off for you.

Anyway, that’s what I would recommend next.

If you want to dive deeper with my methods and how this all works start by grabbing my free blues scale PDF guide right here now: https://www.jonmaclennan.com/bluesscales