A lot of guitar solos use complex technical skills that take time to learn. In this lesson, let’s look at 7 easy guitar solos that any beginner can start learning right now.
These easy guitar solos will help you develop techniques such as bends, slides, legato, vibrato, and more. Each guitar solo is shown in Guitar TAB format and I’ll explain how to play each one.
The guitar solos in this lesson are ordered from easiest to hardest. Start learning the top guitar solos and work your way down the list.
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If you listen to the songs in this lesson, you’ll hear some very different guitar tones. Most solos use a drive tone, but you’ll hear that each one sounds very different. Some even use effects pedals to enhance the tone.
If you’re wondering what you need to do to get your guitar amp to sound like the song, I highly recommend reading my Ultimate Guide to Guitar Amp Settings. It’s one of the most important guides I’ve ever written and will explain how to think about your guitar amp properly.
Once you learn the guitar solos in this lesson, check out these 4 Easy Metal Guitar Solos to take your skills further.
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The way to practice the guitar solos covered in this lesson is simple. Here are the steps to follow for each guitar solo:
It doesn’t matter if you’re learning a basic four-bar solo or a four-minute solo, the above steps are the best way to practice guitar solos.
The number one reason why your guitar solos may sound bad is due to rushing. Beginners and intermediate guitarists tend to rush through learning something, then wonder why it sounds bad.
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Even if the guitar solo you want to learn is fast, start out by slowing it down to a crawl. Practice it at a slow and controlled tempo, then only raise the tempo after it feels easy.
If you ever feel like you’re struggling to keep up with the solo, you’re rushing. Slow the tempo down to give yourself more time to think about what you’re playing.
You can break the solo down into sections as small as you like. Some complicated parts you might want to break down into three or four-note groups, while easier parts can be practiced in long sections.
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If something feels hard to play, break it down into smaller sections and play those sections over and over until they feel easy.
If you come across a difficult technique in a guitar solo, you might want to isolate that technique and spend more time working on it. Find some exercises to help you work on that technique and you’ll find those exercises help you learn the solo faster.
For example, most of the guitar solos in this lesson use bends and vibrato. Bends is often a challenging technique for beginners to learn, so you might want to isolate that technique and spend some time working on it.
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If you use Guitar Pro 8, you can even import the audio file of the song and slow it down along with the TAB. It’s a great way to practice guitar parts and I explain it in more detail in my Guitar Pro 8 review.
Practicing with a metronome or backing track will ensure that you work on your rhythm and timing. Practicing a guitar solo without a metronome or backing track can lead to poor timing problems later on.
If you want your guitar solos to sound good, you need to work on your rhythm and timing skills. A metronome or backing track is an easy way to work on these skills.
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The short guitar solo in Can’t Stop is one of the easiest guitar solos you can learn. It’s a ridiculously easy guitar solo to learn that sounds impressive when played properly.
The key to getting this solo to sound good is to smoothly control the bends and make sure they hit the right pitch. If you can bend those notes up to the perfect pitch, they’ll sound fantastic. If you bend up to the wrong pitch, it will sound terrible.
The ‘full’ bends shown in this guitar solo bend the note up two frets in pitch. This means the 15th fret bend will bend up until it sounds like the note on the 17th fret. Listen to the 17th fret note, then bend up until you hear that pitch.
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The other important aspect to keep in mind when practicing this solo is the rhythm. The solo is slow to play, but you need to get the timing of each note right, or else the solo will sound sloppy.
Use a metronome or backing track to make sure you time each note perfectly. This solo will not sound good if you don’t get your timing right.
This simple guitar solo is very different from the other solos in this lesson. It’s extremely easy to play once you learn how to play the octave shapes it uses.
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This guitar solo is a great example of how important rhythm and melody are. If you have a strong rhythm and a clear melody, even a simple solo like this can sound great.
The above solo uses octave shapes. Sometimes Guitar TAB will place an ‘X’ on the string in between the two notes and sometimes the string will be left blank as shown above.
The way you play these shapes is to use your first finger on the lower note and your third finger on the higher note. The string in between the two notes should be muted by either the side of your first finger or by resting your second finger on it.
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When you strum the strings, you should only hear two notes ring out. If you hear any other string ring out, adjust your finger positions to make sure the other strings are muted.
The rhythm is simple with this solo as you constantly strum eighth notes. Use a metronome to gradually bring up the tempo.
Focus on smoothly shifting your hand up and down the fretboard throughout the solo. Don’t rush or else the solo will sound sloppy.
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This is an incredibly simple solo that gives beginners great practice of moving around the fretboard and playing some simple bends and vibrato.
Spend most of your time practicing the first four bars because the rest of the solo is easy to play once you memorize the notes.
Think about which fingers you should use so you can smoothly move up and down the fretboard. You want this solo to sound like it flows smoothly, so your choice of which fingers to use will be important to get this right.
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When playing the bends, make sure you bend all the way up to the correct pitch. Remember that a ‘full’ bend is equivalent to two frets, so listen to the note two frets higher to hear the pitch the bend should be pushed up to.
Tom Morello is well known for using a Whammy pedal and this solo is arguably his best example of using a Whammy pedal in creative ways.
To get the tone right for this song, you need to use distortion, a Whammy pedal, and a delay pedal (two delay pedals are used in the song, but one pedal will work fine).
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If you think the above Guitar TAB looks easy, you’re right. The solo sounds impressive when you add in the Whammy pedal.
There are a few different Whammy pedals available, but they all do similar things. Here is the DigiTech Whammy DT to give you an example of a popular option:
For every note in the solo (apart from the fast middle section), you rock the whammy pedal all the way forward. This bends the pitch up two octaves as you hear in the song.
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Check out this lesson on How to Use a Whammy Pedal for more details about this solo as well as other Whammy examples and exercises.
If you’re interested in more solos that use a Whammy pedal, check out these Whammy pedal songs (Guitar TAB included for each song).
While this song has a long and difficult solo to learn, there are a couple of shorter and easier solos that any beginner can learn.
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The great thing about this song is that a beginner can start by learning the main riff and the first two solos, then gradually work on the last solo later on.
Tuning: this song has the guitars tuned down a half-step to Eb (called E Flat). You can learn this solo in Standard Tuning and it will sound fine, it just won’t sound right if you try to play along with the song. Learn about E Flat Tuning in this guide.
There are a few tricky bends you will need to work on, but the rest of the solo is as simple as picking the notes with the right timing.
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In the first four bars, think about which fingers you should use to play these notes. A good general rule to follow is to use your first finger (index) to play the lowest fret note, then figure out the other fingers above that note.
So in this solo, you would start by playing the 12th fret with your first
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