Help Improving Originality for Solos

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Damn JG. Thats a fucking brilliant idea. Make up my own vocal melody to the song then figure it out on the fretboard. A lot of our stuff is barked like Slayer, so theres no real vocal melody there, which would make a vocal melody from the guitar full of contrast. Especially on or more melodic tunes, the thrashy ones might be a bit of a stretch to have a melodic solo in, would have to add some shreddedge.

Ive thought about the vocal melody thing before but always kind of considered it lame, ala Nirvana. Redundant and thoughtless, but in a song without a vocal melody, that still leaves it up to me to create it all from scratch, not just parroting the vocal melody thats already there, if there is one.

Thanks JG. Ill have to try that next time I hit the studio or write some new stuff. Ive still got to come up with a set in stone solo for our version of Wish You Were Here, Ill try this approach with that.

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Damn JG. Thats a fucking brilliant idea. Make up my own vocal melody to the song then figure it out on the fretboard. A lot of our stuff is barked like Slayer, so theres no real vocal melody there, which would make a vocal melody from the guitar full of contrast. Especially on or more melodic tunes, the thrashy ones might be a bit of a stretch to have a melodic solo in, would have to add some shreddedge.

Ive thought about the vocal melody thing before but always kind of considered it lame, ala Nirvana. Redundant and thoughtless, but in a song without a vocal melody, that still leaves it up to me to create it all from scratch, not just parroting the vocal melody thats already there, if there is one.

Thanks JG. Ill have to try that next time I hit the studio or write some new stuff. Ive still got to come up with a set in stone solo for our version of Wish You Were Here, Ill try this approach with that.

Basically, what jamming to vocal tracks and trying to mimic every nuance of the vocal track does is open your mind up to alternate melodies. The best guitar solo's always have one thing in common. Melody. The 2 types of music that I jam to the most to work on my soloing skills are Celtic music, Pagannini and believe it or not... Yanni. For Yanni, I mimic the violin parts. All of them, the solo's, the fills and if they aren't playing I switch to the basic melody of the piece and jam along. I end up all over the place on the guitar and when it comes to writing guitar solo's I frequently pull a snippit of melody from something I jammed to and incorporate it in my solos.