OOT's Guitar Players

[balkii]

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If you don't want to take lessons (and even if you do), the best thing you can do is transcribe solos. Learn all of your basic scales in every key and transcribe solos from your favorite players. In addition to helping improve your vocabulary, it will improve your ears and help with your improvising skills down the road.



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Thread over. First off, you should reconsider not taking lessons. They are usually pretty inexepensive and will take your playing far beyond you current state if you practice, and have a GOOD teacher.

But really, all the scales, patterns, and licks in the world won't get you to where you want w/o transcribing. Like the one someone plays? Learn how to do it. And it should noted that attempting to learn from tabs or books is nowhere near as useful as doing the transcribing yourself. The only person who ever got anything out of a book of transcriptions was the guy who made it.