Flying Solo: Beginner Hard Rock

Skill Building Guitar Course from JD McGibney

Are you a beginner player looking to dip your toe into the world of soloing? JD McGibney's course "Flying Solo - Beginner Hard Rock" will give you the tools you need to confidently start playing some leads and guitar solos within the hard rock genre!

15 Lessons

Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.

Multi-Camera

Course filmed with 6 cameras for the perfect angles.

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Full Course Breakdown

JD will break down three separate solos of varying aspects and techniques throughout this course, breaking each solo into four parts so you can get each section confidently under your fingers! After you go through each section, JD will put all those sections together so you can hear and play the solo in its entirety! Throughout this course, JD will also touch on how to play melodies, scale patterns, finger tapping, pinch harmonics, and how to shred!

2

Playing a Catchy Melody

In our first lesson, JD breaks down section one of our first solo!

7:26 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

3

Creating Musical Resolution

For the second section of this solo, we will create a musical answer to the melody we just learned in the previous lesson.

5:02 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

4

Getting Heavy and Altering the Melody

In this lesson, we use the melody that we learned and move it up the neck to acquire some rising action in this solo!

6:25 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

5

A Heavy Resolution

We take a look at the last section of this solo, which creates a resolution for this piece.

4:23 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

6

Solo 1: Narrative of the Gods!

Let's put all these sections together and rock out to our first solo!

3:23 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

7

Bluesy Pentatonics

In this lesson, we jump into our next solo which has more of a bluesy feel.

7:41 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

8

Learning Some Tricks

For the second section of this solo, we stay in the E minor pentatonic from the previous lesson but now we'll add some bends to the notes and create some more raunchier sounds!

6:12 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

9

Tapping and Pinch Harmonics

Moving into the third section of this solo, JD gives us some flashy techniques, finger tapping and pinch harmonics which we can add to our playing!

8:26 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

10

Fast Blues Runs

To wrap up this solo, we dive into a fast blues run that will help demystify the art of doing any fast guitar solo run!

7:35 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

11

Solo 2: Pentatonic High Jinks

Time to put all of those parts together to play the entire solo!

3:10 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

12

Gettin' Shreddy

Let's dive into our last solo! This solo is going to have more of a power metal sound, over a simple chord progression.

5:38 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

13

Adding a Harmony

In this lesson, we go over the 2nd section of this guitar solo with JD introducing the idea of guitar harmonies.

5:24 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

14

Tremolo Picking

In the 3rd section of the guitar solo, we will take the idea we had in section one of this solo, and change it a bit to create a bridge that will lead to a resolution.

6:34 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

15

Fast Scale Patterns

Moving into the last section, we will create a resolve that is going to be a little more shreddy then the previous sections of this solo!

7:23 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

16

Solo 3: The Horseman

Let's put all these sections together and rock out to our final solo!

2:18 Runtime

2.0 Difficulty

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Angels on the Battlefield

  • New York, New York
  • Playing since 2002
  • 81 lessons at JamPlay