How to Play Pedal Tones for Electric Guitar Solos

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Part of the video series: How to Play Electric Guitar Solos

Summary: Learn about pedal tones for an electric guitar solo in this free online music lesson video.

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John Armstrong John Armstrong has been teaching guitar at Keller Music for over 15 years now. He has played with countless musicians over the years, and in bands ranging fro... read more

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How to Play Pedal Tones for Electric Guitar Solos

Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com, I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing the lead guitar or soloing. Alright another common soloing tools is the pedal tone, a petal tone is when we come back to a common tone every other note is the same note, for example with this E-minor pedal tone that I’m going to show you we come back to a B-note, the first segment it comes back to a B-note every other note. There's my B-note…for the next segment we come back to an A-note…the next segment a G-note…and then we just walk ourselves back up into licks and you repeat it…according to an E-minor scale, so here it is…

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