How The Pros Solo on Acoustic Guitar
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Originally posted by UCCJ56k8nBeqWLoxNa6DToAQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AETTS_Ar5o
Watch Glen campbell jamming with Leon Russell in Hamilton 1983 if you want to see some mighty fine acoustic soloing.
It just seems so easy for Glen to tear it up on anything he played.
Neil Young made beautiful solos on the acoustic guitar."Ramada inn" ,for exemple …
Thanks for this channel and the job!
Cheers from deep south of France ,
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the grateful dead acoustic album has some really good acoustic solos !!!!
Great discussion! Thanks
This better be about soloing by yourself with no looper.. otherwise what are we doing here folks? ???? Jk but seriously, if you're doing an acoustic duo and playing lead just get 0.9 gauge acoustic strings and have a ball. Been doing it for years. The hard part is soloing by yourself with no looper and still keeping the rhythm going. That's the video I need
Ive seen hundreds……
The goat for me of acoustic blues is Ricky Paquette.
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All this time I thought you two were the same person.
It's so excellent to see the two of you working together! Two great guitar minds for the price of one! And some cross-border cooperation too; when does Rhett come to Canada?
09:54 and 10:06 – little moments of delicious magic.
This is on bluegrass style. No blues, pop, fusion, etc. You can do a lot more on an acoustic guitar. Don’t be so narrow minded.
Sammy G is always fantastic! Love the two guys together. Do this more often.
Profoundly grateful for this video. Please do more collabs. Lots of 'takeaways' especially for guitarists who play alone which I enjoy. In a sense create your own orchestra with the humble acoustic guitar. I have acquired an electric and acoustic – electric guitar but my affinity for my humble acoustic is so strong, inexplicable. Warm regards from Sunny South Africa
Couldn't disagree more at least for the beginning of this
Tony Rice did just fine on his 6 string box. Check out Shenandoah.
How to solo on an acoustic guitar……
Billy Strings: Hold my beer.
I have 3 Collings acoustics. I've played acoustic forever, and at one point took a break and only did acoustic for 17 years. I know the instrument. It's not electric. HOWEVER, I put 11s on one of the Collings (a mahogany and German SJ) and I play it quite freely and it doesn't fight me. Sure, some guitaristic genre stuff, but also pianistically. Few limits. It's just not a Les Paul.
dope pants samurai!
Love Slash's acoustic soloing on Lies -bends and all!
You talked about solos needing a direction and often players sound like they are just playing a bunch of notes. I often find these types of videos end up sounding like that because you are just 'playing in G' and are not playing an actual song. If you frame a solo by saying which song it is in, you can make it make more sense or give it more meaning. Is it a sad song or a happy one, can you base your phrasing around the phrasing of the lyrics etc? Generic/contextless licks come from generic/contextless playing.
Great video and info. This is where I am trying to improve and the journey continues.
Listen to Tommy Emmanuel…….
You guys must not have seen Tommy Emmanuel play?
Rhett, did you put a pickup in your DB Banjo Killer?? Which?
It's tough when playing alone – I try to figure out how to do fit in a simple solo while still keeping open bass strings ringing out so that the feel of the song doesn't stop.
When in doubt “play the melody”…..thank you fellas! ????????
This is such a weird video. I guess it’s a promotional spot. Anyway, how to say “I haven’t learned from studying Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Mississippi John Hurt, Odetta, John Renbourn, David Gilmour, Etta Baker, Paul McCartney, Nick Drake, Doc Watson…” without saying that.
You guys need to get out more. Go to a Bluegrass festival where people are camping, walk around to the various camp jams and you will find that the per capita of awesome players within the Bluegrass audience is far and away higher than any other genre. The best pickers in the world come from Bluegrass and that's not an opinion. I had the good fortune of witnessing Billy Strings (William Apastol) at my local festivals here in west Michigan go from great to super stardom. Billy was by no means alone with his level of skill.
Ever heard of that guy Pat Metheny?
Who the heck is Steve???
Dude, Matthew Scott's track "Where You Been" features super nice acoustic solos, I highly recommend checking it out! I like it even more than his soulful electric playing, which is already bonkers!
This was incredibly helpful and practical. Have been trying to improve my acoustic solo without it becoming a bluegrass exercise.
No bends is crazy to me, check out stevie ray vaughn's acoustic stuff and tell me you would rather it have no bends. There are a few adjustments such not trying to sustain to long, but there are workarounds (tremolo picking with vary intensity)and ya the 3rd string can go f itself.
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Don’t know if ToneGard got mentioned but for mandolin and guitar it helps avoid damping. Also did crosspicking get mentioned?
Good segment.
Classical guitar also uses open strings whenever possible, mostly because it frees up the other fingers to play fretted notes elsewhere.
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I SWEAR I saw him somewhere but I was like nahhhh im in ATL like no way why would he even be here
Rest Stroke Picking! Check out early Django and Eddie Lang and the guys who had to solo without amplification…
I feel like soloing on an acoustic guitar is best done with fingerstyle picking
1000% an acoustic and electric are NOT the same, even hybrids! I like both, but being an old fart, I started in the early 70's with acoustics and while I love all the wonderful and creative sounds I can make with my electrics, I respect my acoustics for what they enhance in my ever going, never stop learning, guitar journey. Kudos to this video, respect the instrument you are playing!
Great jam session with soloing, clearly a lot of influences from Bluegrass and also Trad Irish and Scottish Folk tunes.
As a Brit who loves Traditional Folk from various parts of the UK I can find a lot of inspiration from this.
Cheers ???? chaps.
Nice. I enjoyed Vince Gill’s solo George Jones funeral
I play my acoustic like an electric, my g string keeps breaking and i’ve broken too many e strings
Im still gonna do it