Gary Joyner

Playing a solo is a lot like speaking—or singing—with your instrument. The notes are the syllables that you combine into words and phrases to make a statement or tell a story on your guitar. So far in this series on soloing basics, we’ve created phrases by arranging notes, drawn from scales or chords, into short sequences of pitch and rhythm. In this lesson we’ll add an element that brings out the vocal quality of a solo even more: using slurs to connect notes.

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