Example of soloing and creating phrases and melodies over simple 2-chord harmony!

We'll work aspects like rhythm, scale uses, and different techniques as legato, alternate picking, Vibrato, Slides harmonics and arpeggios.

In this lesson I've tried to take a very simple melody and turned it into a relatively easy and effective solo.

This is the place for all you beginning guitarists to get started on your journey to great guitar playing. To start off with, we are going to learn a few open chords in the key of D major.

Improvising over II V I chord progression in D major scale using chord tones, arpeggios, approach patterns, chromatic approach and scale approach.

D is a very popular guitar key with simple-to-add D embellishments such as and D sus2 (used in the outro) and Sus4 (covered later). Contains two barre chords.

We'll work over 4 variations on the chord cadence of the ultra-well-known Pachelbel Canon.

This solo combines many techniques: bending, pre-bending, picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping, sweeping, use of open strings etc. It's sort of a Rock Ballad feel, tempo is 70bpm.

We'll cover the key of D-Major and learn some cool licks you can use in this key, and also apply to a different key. Techniques which we'll use are Alternate Picking, string skipping and a bit of legato.