• Registered: 2007-04-11
  • Posts: 4

Topic: Lightning Fast Lead Breaks and Licks

Been playing electric for about 8 months now (accoustic about 10 years) and really starting to get it, doing quite well with the Pentatonic scales and easy solos but how do you get to do those lightning fast breaks? is there some secret teqchnique, are they just made up of very fast hammer & pulls and taps or is there something else I'm missing? Maybe there is no real magic other than just loads of prictice.
Any tips or advice really appreciated. Twang Twang.

  • From: Bellevue, WA
  • Registered: 2006-06-15
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Re: Lightning Fast Lead Breaks and Licks

Yes.  The secret is "practice."   Every day.  For years.

That is all.

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  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
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Re: Lightning Fast Lead Breaks and Licks

OK, first off there are the cheats, things that sound like solos but are really;

a) collections of chords played up and down the neck with attitude, see 'The Sonics'.

b) one note wonders, see 'I Can See For Miles' and Neil Young's 'Cinnamon Girl'.

If you've gotten your finger picking up to speed you can play real fast this way but it doesn't sound right, trust me I've tried but it's not rock'n'roll.

Real soloing could be said to be scales played up and down the neck really fast. There's  more to it than that, begin with Ralph Argesta's 'Blues: Jam Trax' book and CD combination. This is at least fun and if you keep at it you'll get faster. Look for this month's 'Guitar Techniques' magazine, not sure if this is UK only but this issue screams 'Play Faster!' on the cover and has exercises in legato playing which is at the heart of speed solos.

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  • From: Frederick, MD
  • Registered: 2006-12-28
  • Posts: 851

Re: Lightning Fast Lead Breaks and Licks

cytania wrote:

OK, first off there are the cheats, things that sound like solos but are really;

b) one note wonders, see 'I Can See For Miles' and Neil Young's 'Cinnamon Girl'.

If you've gotten your finger picking up to speed you can play real fast this way but it doesn't sound right, trust me I've tried but it's not rock'n'roll.

Real soloing could be said to be scales played up and down the neck really fast. There's  more to it than that, begin with Ralph Argesta's 'Blues: Jam Trax' book and CD combination. This is at least fun and if you keep at it you'll get faster. Look for this month's 'Guitar Techniques' magazine, not sure if this is UK only but this issue screams 'Play Faster!' on the cover and has exercises in legato playing which is at the heart of speed solos.

Wait...what do you mean by "b)"???
Cinnamon Girl is one of the songs that inspired me to stop playing power-chords and hit the individual notes in songs.

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