Does anyone else hate acoustic solos?
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00:00 Intro
00:31 Fill up the sound with open strings
03:13 Ad Break
03:59 Get your gear in order
05:23 Swap out the bends for slides
05:58 Study the acoustic masters
07:13 Think about the ends of phrases
08:10 Try a chord solo
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I can understand the stigma surrounding acoustic solos, especially if you're the only one playing anything in a room. But I think in a band or harmony context, they can be really magical.
corrido 12 string solos sound so good
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In my opinion, every instrument should be able to solo. Even vocals. But of course, every instrument needs a different approach. This was a fantastic video to showcase that. To me, one of the best acoustic renditions is David Gilmour’s acoustic version of Shine on you crazy diamond.
Yeah when I saw the title of the video my first thought was “David Gilmour.” Tons of acoustic solos on his solo albums then on the Pink Floyd side shine on, coming back to life, and in my opinion the song with the best acoustic solo wish you were here.
was gonna mention Gilmour but you beat me to it
Yeah dude, appoach is a keyword there
Even viola (according to Frank Zappa in 'Bogus Pomp')
Triangle solo
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I love acoustic solos. The acoustic guitar can have such a cool and dynamic voice on its own. What I hate is when bands do an “acoustic version” of a song without changing the arrangement at all. Power chords on an acoustic just sound lazy to me.
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First off, I hate how every single rock or metal band out there for awhile felt that they just HAD to have an acoustic version of ALL of their popular songs. That shit got old so fucking fast. (Thanks Tesla! XD) But it's ESPECIALLY bad when the band doesn't bother to make ANY arrangement changes to compensate for the difference. You are 100% correct, a bunch of power chords on an acoustic sounds super lazy. At the very least, learn how to extend the power chords to add the third or seventh to it, to give it some damn color. There's nothing wrong with power chords under distortion, the distortion makes them sound big and thick. But on acoustic, just the root and the fifth sound dry and tiny.
@@metalboy5150 the one exception to that is nirvanas something in the way imo, where the slowly strummed power chords sound dark and full. Otherwise 100% agree
@@3van660 that or punk bands doing acoustic songs, it might sound weird to some people, but their fandom may not like it if they all of a sudden go full pat metheny. Blink 182 for example
Are you old?
@@tko3833 yeah probably lol. I remember watching Kurt cobain playing “come as you are” unplugged on MTV. I was maybe 10 or so and it was so badass! But then the early 2000’s hit and everyone was doing the unplugged thing and it just sounded boring to me. Kinda trite. So yeah I guess I’m an old guy lol
Two words: Tommy Emmanuel. Remember the first time you heard Victor Wooten play bass and went "wait, that can do THAT?" That's the acoustic guitar under Tommy's fingertips. What a monster player.
Just "Classical Gas" alone is enough to make you drop your teeth.
Something strange then, I guess? Slash's solo on "Patience" is one of the first things that made me wanna actually play guitar. The emotion, the feel, that shit just hit me. \m/
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The greatest compliment I ever received was when a lady said I sounded like her old friend, Maury Meuhleisen. He was Jim Croce's lead player, and one of the reasons I took up the instrument. He combined folky finger-picking figures, almost a classical guitarist's (or a pianist's) way of combining melody and bass, and the most graceful string-bending you ever heard on the instrument. Choice cuts: "Operator," "I Got a Name," "One Less Set of Footsteps," "Time in a Bottle." A master, gone too soon in the plane crash that also took his friend and collaborator's life.
"I got a name" is one of my long term guitar goals, including that amazing solo. I'm still a total beginner, but someday maybe.
I'm a big Jim Croce fan. Never did learn the name of any of his musical collaborators, so thanks for introducing me to his guitarist.
@@robswystun2766 Interesting fact - the last song Croce ever recorded was "Salon and Saloon," which Meuhleisen wrote but did not play on.
DAMN. I just watched the "Operator" live vid a couple nights ago, and was thinking how perfectly complimentary his leads were with what Mr. Croce was doing. So that is a great compliment indeed. Tasteful! \m/
Yeah he’s one of my favorites and one of if not the most criminally underrated guitarists.
Soloing on the acoustic guitar has always been fun
Love that you mentioned Tony Rice, he's an acoustic legend that a lot of acoustic players could look up to, plus the likes of Doc Watson and even Billy Strings to an extent
I think Billy Strings hasn't had enough time to shine as a creator despite his incredibly solid albums recently. But I think around 30 years from now or so there will be plenty of blue grass country players citing him as a big influence.
Yes my thoughts exactly!
I clicked this video and immediately went to the comments looking for this. If you're going to talk about acoustic guitar solos you'd better talk about Tony Rice.
Gotta get some Dave Rawlins in the mix.
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Yes!! So happy someone made a video about this!
Really cool insights. I never thought of the acoustic electric dilemma that way. Learned something new from the samurai today
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Some really cool acoustic solos that come to mind are in Byblos by Chicago and the unplugged version of Layla by Eric Clapton
very insightful, thank you!
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John Mayer’s Queen of California solo in his acoustic video is a prime example of your “chord style solo”. Also Billy Strings is a master in Bluegrass acoustic soloing that I just discovered just somewhat recently
This is a fantastic tutorial for so many people!!! I found this out on my own years back, and when I did, I felt like I had discovered something that none of my friends or influences were doing!
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Mate since I've been watching your videos I've gotten much better thanks to you, I have been playing for 16 years and I haven't improved so much in such a short amount of time, so thank you man, love all your content!
There's one band that can do very straightforward acoustic solos in a way that work surprisingly well: Tenacious D.
No, seriously! Listen to the solo on their song "Kyle Quit The Band" for example. The solo is an acoustic guitar trading off licks with an electric, which sounds like would make the acoustic sound even tinier by comparison, but KG makes it work and sound incredibly awesome.
I really think this is an underappreciated part of their music, I haven't seen anyone pull off that kind of straight forward rock based acoustic soloing as well as them.
Rize of the Fenix has a beautiful acoustic solo too (not sure if it's in the music video version, gotta listen to the full 6-minute track)
Cuz kyle plays it hard asf
I fuck with the D
How 'bout the power...to move you?
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Thanks for the video man! Found nothing quite like this online, it was really helpful, I´m used to electric guitar, agree to do a gig with an acoustic and it is a different thing, I was doing the Slash thing :S, thanks for the tips! Keep rocking!
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Def will try these out. I’ve been messing around with harmonics too. Favorite acoustic thing was the Math Rock Wonderwall cover. Love your work Sammy G!
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The only thing I really don't like is acoustic bends tbh. I find they kind of fade away as you bend and don't have as much power as electric. Sidewinder by Avenged Sevenfold has a really cool acoustic solo at the end I'd recommend checking out.
Aw man I've always loved that outro! Always wanted to learn it someday myself.
You can't bend the same as on an electric, but that doesn't that it can't sound good in the right hands.
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It's like you're in my mind lol I've always hated soloing on acoustic because it's hard to translate electric guitar techniques with am acoustic
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George Harrison’s nylon string guitar solos on “Till There Was You” and “And I Love Her” are simple, melodic and beautiful.
For the longest time I had no amp in my apartment so I spent my first year or two of paying my e-guitar unplugged, thanks to that, soloing on acoustic feels pretty natural to me
The first exception that came to mind was "Touch Peel and Stand" by Days of the New. That's got a pretty wicked acoustic solo.
It does?
@@InAtlasAtLast hell yeah. Check it out man.
I love that solo. Its got such a great rhythmic feel in line with the drummer and builds up to a tense dotted 8th note thing then he just let's loose for a bit amd its just great I really like it because its still a "wordy" solo at the end with a lot of notes but its done well
@@meeserbaker the 8th note bit is an electric solo played through an acoustic guitar. I just get really jazzed every time I hear it.
Days Of The New... Period!! They were so awesome!!
Trains by Porcupine Tree. Amazing acoustic solo, probably my favorite.
Awesome song
The first one I thought of too. Probably the first acoustic solo I learned, and still probably my favorite.
Was just about to comment the same thing, it really is a magical solo
Great song!
Was gonna say this and Sentimental, SW knows how to do it for sure
Wow! For some reason I really like the bends you did on that acoustic more than the slides. I'm a big fan of sliding...
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has some good acoustic licks and stuff that works really well too
Acoustic solos are gorgeous and so much fun to play. If you do a lot of bending just make sure you have light strings
I do a lot of acoustic music often without other instruments, just with singers! I'm usually a fingerstyle player so I was comfortable with playing melodies incorporated with chords before these groups. I found it very useful to try and emulate this when using a pic if needed! Hold down the basics of the chord your soloing over and play your melody over top with whatever fingers you have left available! This allows you to play interesting melodies while still keeping the rhythm going :) hope somebody finds this useful :)
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For me I really like acoustic soloing because it shows how skilled they really are. If you can play good on acoustic then you can usually play REALLY good on eletric. Because you can hear every time they mess up their rhythm, their picking, their string bends ect. Personally I'd pick an acoustic over and eletric but that's just me.
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Paul McCartney's acoustic solo on the Beatles song Mother Nature's Son is a shining example. His playing is super expressive.
Ever since I heard Kurt play Man who Sold the World and that simple yet awesome solo when I was 13, that was good enough. Acoustic solos are cool when done right
The open string idea is especially cool on bass, and its a fun challenge.
Tip 6 is really my go to technique. I've learned to solo around chords by using inversions and suspensions. You can really make a solo stand out in your strum pattern just by moving one finger up or down a fret or two. Playing around with working non-chord tones into your strumming pattern sounds really great.
Great advice! Changed the solo in 'your decision' from Alice in Chains to play with open strings. And it sounds so much better on the acoustic. Thanks!
The drone string part is great
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In open G with a bottle neck slide, on acoustic it's soooo cool !!!
YESSS! Thank you for the shoutout to Tony Rice and bluegrass in general!
DAYS OF THE NEW !!
check out all their albums!
First one is best and second one has some great stuff too!
We definitely have room for acoustic solos! One band that mastered it and came in my mind is Sublime, in the song 'What I got'
Yessss! Tony rice! I first heard him mentioned recently and they guy went on and on about how perfectly he play and there’s no filler garbage really so I had to give him a listen. It checks out. He’s a master. Love this video btw! Thanks again!
I absolutely love the acoustic solo on Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O’Sullivan
Crazy on you intro by Heart is amazing.
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You can keep it pretty simple and still end up with something really enjoyable--I often think of the studio version of Dylan's "Desolation Row," which has fairly basic acoustic fills all through it that sound great.
Sammy - I really enjoyed the bending tip. I try to force the bend on my acoustic and it never sounds great to me...I thought I just sucked at it. Not that you should avoid something you can't do well, but I really liked hearing how instead of bending you slid up to the note. Thanks for that I'm going to work that into my practicing
Dude that martin is just to gorgeous
Paul Gilberts solo in "To be with you" is nice and fits the song super well.
The best acoustic solo is on the song Touch, Peel, and Stand by Days Of The New. They are a great band👌🏻
My favorite guitar solo of all time is hands down the solo in "Now" by Days of the New.
That entire album is acoustic rock at its finest, imo.
When I first saw the title of this video, my first thought was "What about Days of the New's first album?!" My first thought was "Touch, Peel, and Stand," but immediately, I thought,"The solo from 'Now' is so much better."
Indeed, one of the better examples of acoustic-styled hard rock available. You can tell they took a great deal of inspiration from Alice in Chains' 2 acoustic EPs. At least, it seems so to me.
Yeah, Days of the New pulled off acoustic rock better than anyone I've ever heard!
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He is definitely Canadian.
One of my favourite acoustic guitar solos that really shines in the song context is Black Masquerade by Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore on guitar)
Good information. Good techniques. but - I'm not as concerned about filling in the spaces as I used to be. Overall, in recent years I prefer the natural guitar sound of acoustic and electric.
when I was a kid I always heard the guitar in songs I always wanted to play and it was actually the acoustic guitar solo in Forever by Kiss that tipped me over the edge to learn and now I've been playing and making guitars for 7 years now
Be with you by Mr. Big. Great acoustic solo.
Damn, first time i'm this early. Thanks for the tips!
I think as long as the solo is short and sweet it'll sound great on an acoustic. Yours by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is a great example
Alongside Tony Rice, I recommend listening to Norman Blake, Doc Watson, and Clarance White for more bluegrass legends.
I love acoustic solo's and love to do my own solo playing 💕😆
if youre a guitarist that hasnt heard any of doc watsons playing, i would recommend listening to some, such as deep river blues, docs guitar, and black mountain rag.
The chord solo idea stuck with me the most. I personally love acoustic solos but sometimes when I play them they feel empty and without shape. Especially if I'm playing note for note. Acoustics in my opinion are most fun when you're either strumming or fingerpicking. Adding a rhythm approach to acoustic solos by using chords sounds so gratifying. Looking forward to giving it a shot
For those thinking of getting into Bluegrass from a more rock background, I would suggest the band Nickel Creek, especially their later stuff. Sean Watkins is a killer guitar player.
Billy strings too 😁
My personal favorite bluegrass band is a smaller, local band called Pert Near Sandstone!
Was thinking about the song Out Of The Woods the moment I saw this video pop up.
@@joshfairbanks33 had to go listen again lol such a tasteful solo
I kinda misread it for nickelback creed
The solo in The Guitar by Guy Clark is definitely my favorite acoustic guitar solo ever. It's perfect imo.
Try using open triads to expand the range a little!
The beginning of Wish You Were Here comes to mind
I love the acoustic solo in Sidewinder by Avenged Sevenfold
Days Of The New have some truly amazing acoustic solos
The acoustic solo in “year of the cat” is one of my favorite solos of any instrument
That's a nice one indeed!
Never had an issue with acoustic solos since one of the first acoustic pieces I fell in love with was Extreme / Nuno Bettencourt's Midnight Express. Three minutes of some of the greatest soloing of all time on an acoustic.
The intro solo of wish you were here is my favourite acoustic solo
I love 'em
The reason I started thinking about acoustic guitar as a proper instrument was one piece (Blackbird) and one solo, and that one solo is on the track "Forever" by Kiss. The most magnificent, simple use of a major scale I've heard in my life, and I've heard a lot of music. It's a real treat.
One of my favorite acoustic solos is actually from a random video of John Mayer playing "Belief" backstage on an acoustic guitar. It's surprising to see how differently he approaches playing acoustic compared to playing electric
John is such a master of dynamics in both acoustic and electric. I do think that his acoustic work is giving his electric work a run for his money especially back in the day. At least he somewhat came back in Born and Raised with his “Americana” style but man I wish we could hear more. Of course who could forget Neon btw?
They're almost two different instruments, so you have to approach them differently if you want them both to sound good. Like bass; you can't just go at it like it's an electric because it'll sound shit!
@@samme79 I barely knew who John Mayer was (I'd heard "No Such Thing" on the radio a couple times), I just thought he sounded a bit like Dave Matthews (which is not necessarily a bad thing, to me).
I got home one night and turned on the TV, and Carson Daly, of all people, had a show on NBC really late at night (I never could stomach Carson Daly, he just always seemed too smarmy to me....anyway, I digress), and John Mayer was his musical guest. So he comes out, alone, with his acoustic guitar, sits down, and proceeds to play the living CRAP out of "Neon." I was stunned. At that moment, I was like, "This kid is someone to watch," and I was so right. I feel he's a bit underrated. Not WAY underrated, just a bit.
One of my fav acoustic guitar solo is Def Leppard's Two Steps Behind