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Part of the video series: How to Improvise Guitar Solos

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Summary: Improv guitar soloing can seem much harder than it really is. Here is a video to offer some tips on how to be a better guitar player.

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Improv Guitar Picking & Soloing Tips

This will be more of a metal kind of scaling and phrasing. Its a little quicker, with more staccato style picking. I'm doing a thing called "sweet picking" where you can get three or four or five, six, eight notes in one sweep of the pick and these things called "hammer ons" where you are slamming down on the string without really picking and getting a flurry of notes by doing that style of technique.

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