Improvising Solos for Guitar (book/CD)

Mel Bay Publications
Level : Intermediate

This book presents step-by-step instruction on how to build an improvised guitar solo in four stages: Motive, Development, Climax, and Closing Gesture.
The book also includes five types of solos: swing, funk, ballad, blues, and Latin. These last five solos are in the form of songs to give players a more realistic sense of how improvisation works. Written in standard notation and tablature with chords grids.

Solos:

• Blues Shuffle       
• I Like It       
• L'samba      
• Pretty       
• The Funk