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Originally Posted by Elphenor
I remember when I first started playing I thought solos were played with all these complex scales you'd have to memorize
But it's really simple patterns played with a lot of tricks like hammer on and vibrato
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Well it depends on the solo and what scale you wanna use, I suppose. A large chunk of rock and pop solos are built off the minor pentatonic scale, so a lot of people just kinda learn those patterns. If you want to build solos off of other scales, I suppose you'd learn those ones.
It's hard for me to memorize scale shapes, and sometimes I'll have them all down only to forget them again after a while of not playing. I mostly just play in modes of the pentatonic and major scales, but I've been planning on branching out to modes of the harmonic minor (similar to the natural minor, but with a sharpened 7th... the parallel major would have a sharpened fifth in comparison to the regular major scale), and then some cool exotic scales. I like the sound of when I screw around in exotic scales, but I haven't committed any of them to memory because I don't want to confuse myself while I'm still trying to memorize the basics.
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Originally Posted by buzzard
I think the Catalinbread dude died.
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That's awful. I've never tried any of their pedals because I always stick to cheap stuff but a lot of them look good.