Passage or section of music designated for a guitar
For the Fred Frith album, see Guitar Solos.
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Guitarist Brian Ray soloing.
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric, or acoustic guitar. In 20th and 21st century traditional music and popular music such as blues, swing, jazz, jazz fusion, rock and heavy metal, guitar solos often contain virtuoso techniques and varying degrees of improvisation. Guitar solos on classical guitar, which are typically written in musical notation, are also used in classical music forms such as chamber music and concertos.
Guitar solos range from unaccompanied works for a single guitar to compositions with accompaniment from a few other instruments or a large ensemble. The accompaniment musicians for a guitar solo can range from a small ensemble such as a jazz quartet or a rock band, to a large ensemble such as an orchestra or big band. Unaccompanied acoustic guitar music is found in folk and classical music dating as far back as the instrument's first use in western music, the use of an acoustic guitar as a solo voice within an ensemble dates back at least to the Baroque concerto.
A guitarsolo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric...
chords) and performing guitarsolos, and in many rock subgenres, notably heavy metal music and punk rock. The electric guitar has had a major influence...
unique role of mi-solo, (meaning "half solo") guitarist, playing arpeggio patterns and filling a role "between" the lead and rhythm guitars. In some cases...
GuitarSolos is the debut solo album of English guitarist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith. It was recorded while Frith was still a member of the English...
want to solo, so in the 1980s, he preferred to make noise and do feedback during the guitarsolo. Baeble Music calls the grunge guitarsolos of the 1990s...
cream shop to support himself. Lenderman released a second solo album, Ghost of Your GuitarSolo, in 2021. His third album Boat Songs was released in 2022...
recorded". A year later, Roth's sologuitar playing for the album In Trance would become "the prototype for shred guitar. Everything associated with the...
Songs". Clapton's performance was ranked 42nd in Guitar World's 2008 list of the "100 Greatest GuitarSolos". Harrison and Clapton often performed the song...
lyrical style. The guitarsolo by jazz fusion guitarist Larry Carlton was ranked #80 in the list of the 100 greatest guitarsolos by Rolling Stone. The...
switched from acoustic to semi-acoustic guitar and began using amplifiers, it enabled them to play solos. Jazz guitar had an important influence on jazz in...
magazine selected the guitarsolos on the track "Hotel California" by Walsh and Don Felder as the best guitarsolos of all time. Guitar World magazine listed...
acoustic guitar and four recorders (ending at 2:15) and gradually moving into a slow electric middle section (2:16–5:33), then a long guitarsolo (5:34–6:44)...
single, "My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian...
classical guitar. His influences broadened, now including spanish guitar virtuoso Andrés Segovia and violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Roth's solo on Scorpion's...
Ill, King also played the guitarsolo on the song "Fight For Your Right (To Party)". King contributed the main lead guitarsolo and outro part to Pantera's...
song’s famous guitarsolo. Although it was long rumoured that future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page had performed the song's guitarsolo, this has been...
works for guitarsolo, guitar ensembles, as well as guitar concertos, are all placed in a separate category. However, pieces which include guitar as part...
guitarist and guitar teacher, known for his work with the bands the Aristocrats, Asia, GPS, the Young Punx and the Fellowship, as well as his solo project Erotic...
the Hell Was I Thinking?", a 75-minute piece featuring guitarsolos by dozens of famous guitar players. The project has suffered from numerous difficulties...
it—the school children as well as the college students." It includes a guitarsolo by Eddie Van Halen. Following the successful Thriller singles "The Girl...
best-known recordings by the band, and in 1998 its long guitar coda was voted the best guitarsolo of all time by readers of Guitarist. The song was awarded...
the readers of Guitar World voted May's guitarsolos on "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Brighton Rock" into the "top 50 Greatest GuitarSolos of all time" (No...
the band's farewell tour. His most recent solo album, 10,000 Volts, was released on February 23, 2024. Guitar World magazine ranked him as the 14th Greatest...
leg, the piano would play, then David played a bluesy guitarsolo, then Snowy played a guitarsolo, and then White would play the high harmonies while Gilmour...
guitar style was influenced by black metal, power metal and classical music, all cemented together by blistering solos. He was known for his guitar-keyboard...
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