Modern Rock Solo Lesson

Emir Hot

Building a Modern Rock Solo

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- AngrysonTR10th September 2012
  Es-Salamu Aleykum Bosnian Petrucci another awesome solo! congrats keep on rockin man!
- Ivan Milenkovic13th October 2011
  Hello Osito,
  
  I believe that the tab is correct. The thing that concerns you is that 14th fret note on the D string not being visible in the tab (there are only 12-10-12 on that string, when it should be 14/12-10-12).
  
  Emir didn't put that note because it is a ghosted note. It means that he goes fast from that note to 12th fret one (with a slide). When you see him playing it on regular tempo, you will see that he slides very fast from 14-12. When he slows down, this note is audible more.
  
  Let me know if I can help further with this,
  Ivan
- Osito12th October 2011
  Just a quick fyi:
  I'm pretty sure the tab on part 3 is missing the note E (14th fret D string) as the 6th to last note from the end
- Emir Hot11th January 2010
  QUOTE (Zsolt Galambos @ Jan 11 2010, 09:26 AM)
  Killer lesson, Emir! Love the arpeggios
  
  Thanks man
- Zsolt Galambos11th January 2010
  Killer lesson, Emir! Love the arpeggios
- Emir Hot11th January 2010
  QUOTE (Jonathan Burgos @ Jan 10 2010, 11:06 PM)
  Reaaly awesome Emir! great lesson man!!
  
  Thank you
- Jonathan Burgos10th January 2010
  Reaaly awesome Emir! great lesson man!!
- Emir Hot10th January 2010
  QUOTE (Vasilije Vukmirovic @ Jan 10 2010, 02:57 PM)
  Great lines Emir!
  
  Thanks
- Vasilije Vukmirovic10th January 2010
  Great lines Emir!
- Emir Hot10th January 2010
  QUOTE (jeff @ Jan 10 2010, 01:09 PM)
  Wow Emir - this really is a great tune! Played so perfectly too. You know the way to use sweeps - not to much and not to little. Just perfect man!!!
  
  Thanks man I always try not to overdo it.
  
  QUOTE (Laszlo Boross @ Jan 10 2010, 01:23 PM)
  Very nice job Emir as usually!
  
  Cheers Laszlo
- Laszlo Boross10th January 2010
  Very nice job Emir as usually!
- Jeff10th January 2010
  Wow Emir - this really is a great tune! Played so perfectly too. You know the way to use sweeps - not to much and not to little. Just perfect man!!!
- Emir Hot10th January 2010
  Thanks Pedja, Ivan and Sinisa
- Sinisa Cekic10th January 2010
  Great solo & and lesson Emire !!
- Ivan Milenkovic9th January 2010
  Great solo Emir, so nicely made, and well constructed, great techniques. Really good man.
- Pedja Simovic9th January 2010
  Really good lesson Emir, full of useful rock/metal licks!
- Emir Hot9th January 2010
  QUOTE (Daniel Realpe @ Jan 9 2010, 01:07 PM)
  oh man, this is awesome! pretty tasty, I can sense some Vinnie Moore which I love very much
  
  Glad to hear that I love Vinnie's licks
- Daniel Realpe9th January 2010
  oh man, this is awesome! pretty tasty, I can sense some Vinnie Moore which I love very much
- Emir Hot9th January 2010
  QUOTE (Sergio Dorado @ Jan 9 2010, 10:14 AM)
  Great, Emir! Love the chord-scales relationship ideas
  
  Thanks Sergio. You might want to join the collab over this backing which I am running now. Your collab contribution has always been awesome.
- Sergio Dorado9th January 2010
  Great, Emir! Love the chord-scales relationship ideas
- Emir Hot9th January 2010
  QUOTE (Muris Varajic @ Jan 9 2010, 08:44 AM)
  Well done bro.
  
  Thanks bro
- Muris Varajic9th January 2010
  Well done bro.
- Emir Hot9th January 2010
  QUOTE (zoom @ Jan 9 2010, 03:13 AM)
  Yeah
- zoom9th January 2010
  Yeah
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Krisztian Lovrek @ Jan 8 2010, 08:18 PM)
  Great! I had Hamer guitars for 7 years, I loved it!
  
  I love this one, it has been serving me for years with no problem.
- Krisztian Lovrek8th January 2010
  Great! I had Hamer guitars for 7 years, I loved it!
- Gerardo Siere8th January 2010
  Awesome solo Emir!
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Lian Gerbino @ Jan 8 2010, 06:17 PM)
  awesome man! really like those legatos with tapping!
  
  Yeah that's a cool one I learned it from my ex. teacher
- Lian Gerbino8th January 2010
  awesome man! really like those legatos with tapping!
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Wilska @ Jan 8 2010, 05:27 PM)
  Totally awesome Emir, a wonderful solo, very tasteful and also shredding! 3 thumbs up
  
  Thanks man, that's nice comment
- Wilska8th January 2010
  Totally awesome Emir, a wonderful solo, very tasteful and also shredding! 3 thumbs up
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Adrian Figallo @ Jan 8 2010, 05:02 PM)
  awesome playing emir!!
  
  Thanks Adrian.
- Adrian Figallo8th January 2010
  awesome playing emir!!
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Piotr Kaczor @ Jan 8 2010, 03:49 PM)
  Awesome licks, Emir! Great playing as always!
  
  Cheers Piotr Your playing is great too man
- Piotr Kaczor8th January 2010
  Awesome licks, Emir! Great playing as always!
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (NoSkill @ Jan 8 2010, 02:38 PM)
  Tasty! Lot's of good stuff in there.
  
  Cheers man
- NoSkill8th January 2010
  Tasty! Lot's of good stuff in there.
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Bogdan Radovic @ Jan 8 2010, 01:25 PM)
  Great solo lesson Emir!
  
  Thank you
- Bogdan Radovic8th January 2010
  Great solo lesson Emir!
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (Ivan Zecic @ Jan 8 2010, 12:55 PM)
  This was really cool! The fast stuff just blended in
  
  Thanks man
- Ivan Zecic8th January 2010
  This was really cool! The fast stuff just blended in
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  Thank you guys.
- Sensible Jones8th January 2010
  Great lesson Emir!!
  Some great licks in there!!
- Staffy8th January 2010
  Awesome Emir! Very cool and modern sounding!!!
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  QUOTE (playaxeman @ Jan 8 2010, 11:16 AM)
  Emir,
  
  Great solo and technique
  awesome lesson
  
  It is great to be on GMC: so many good lessons
  
  Thank you man. I am glad if you find this lesson useful.
- playaxeman8th January 2010
  Emir,
  
  Great solo and technique
  awesome lesson
  
  It is great to be on GMC: so many good lessons
- Emir Hot8th January 2010
  Thanks Kristofer.
- Kristofer Dahl8th January 2010
  Awesome solo construction Emir!

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- Tags: A minor, Alternate picking, Sweep picking, Tapping, Shred, Vinnie Moore, Advanced techniques, Lead techniques, Palm muting, Pentatonic
Hi

I am big fan of good and tasty rock licks. Some of you might have noticed that I usually pay attention to melody in every solo. I almost always develop it with slow long notes and speed up later.

In this lesson I wanted to try to make a solo from bunch of different licks and still get the same effect without going for a specialy developed theme. You can notice that every 2 bars I play a different lick but when connected with the previous one they work together as a melody.

This lesson, besides technical, could also be in category of compositional skills. The technical part of it introduces many different things. You have alternate picking, sweeped arpeggios, tapping etc... Please pay attention to hammer ons and pull offs when playing minor pentatonic licks in the lesson. Those are very important for proper phrasing (see GP file or tab). The whole solo is in A minor with its relative modes so I just left one scale diagram. There are some chromatic passing ones and one dorian lick (see Am6 chord on the video) but think of A minor througout the whole solo.

I hope you'll find some useful licks in this one and happy practicing...

Emir

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