how to put it together?

[Matt Fairless]

I understand all these different concepts and techniques and I feel like I dont know what to do with them all, ive been playing long enough that most of these lessons make sense and I already know them somewhat but I dont know how to put them all together to get the ideas inside my head out. puts me in a writers block type situation of what do I play?

 

[Matt Wildman]

I struggled with applying all of the concepts here too. When I learn one of syns etudes, or even one of papa gates riffs in his videos I like to experiment with playing those same patterns/scales in different keys and locations on the fret board while throwing in some of my own stuff that I’ve learned in the past, and playing what comes to my fingers when I want to make my own riffs. It’s all just about playing around and linking these techniques you have learned using your own playing style. Keep doing more lessons and your ideas will come out soon. Hope this helps!

 

[idssdi]

I kinda just let my fingers/mind decide which technique I’m using and just run with it. I’ve never been very conscious about techniques i used in a solo so putting it all together is kind of however you want to use it. You dont really need all of them everytime. I would say just try to get whatever you have in you head to your guitar and when you get that start worrying about technique

 

[Sven Barnitzki]

The most efficient way, i think, is playing on backing tracks and just let your fingers do what they wanna do. Use some techniques, like sweeping arpeggios, over the right key and check out what sounds godd and what does not. Create your own wheater
Also, the circle fo fifths really helps out of using major and minor keys the right way.

 

[Noah Berends]

What I often do is play one of my favorite songs that maybe isn’t as heavy on lead guitar parts, such as songs from Linkin Park or even blink-182, and I’ll play along with the song and write my own solos/riffs with the song as it goes along, incorporating different techniques I’ve learned that I think would best fit the song. Playing over backing tracks as previously suggested also helps. Don’t worry if what you write sounds like crap to you at first, artists almost never publish their very first iteration of anything. Many pieces of music go through tens of different iterations and versions before finally coming to what you hear on a track. So get out there, write some things based on what you’ve learned, and most importantly: have fun with it!

 

[Calvin Phillips]

I cant really give an answer.. i watched a lot of dvds on the making of albums (self entitled) learned a lot just listening to them talk about how each song comes.
Juat remember that songs progress. So ideally you start out small and grow. Taking a simple melody or riff and exploding it.. roman sky is a perfrct example.