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Originally Posted by Random Robot
But I like the idea of actually learning different solos. I would think that I should learning the song first and reconizing what key it is in before I learn the solo. Then how hard is it to transpose those licks to different songs I learn in different keys?
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To transpose it all you will have to do is move the same "lick" up or down the fretboad to change keys. Like instead of starting the lick on the 5th fret, to change keys you'd just move it up or down and start on a different fret but play the same lick.
The idea is to get your fingers used to playing different patterns. Kind of like when you're first trying to learn chords and you just have to hammer the same chord(s) over and over again so your fingers just automatically know them. Then once you know the basic chord shapes you can expand on them and change the chord voicings, or add extra notes to the chords like 7ths, 9ths, etc. In the same way, learning other solos is like learning the "basic" solo shapes that sound good to you. Then you can expand on these once your fingers know the patterns. If you learn scales at the same time you are working on this then you will be able to look at how the solo pattern fits within the scale and you can see what other notes you can add in to "tweak" the solo and add your own stuff into it. This will also make learning scales more fun because it won't just be a boring pattern, but you'll be studying a musical pattern within the scale.
I know many guitarists who have been playing about the same length as me (some even a lot less) and they know lots of solos from various songs and can solo circles around me. lol Theory alone won't cut it, you have to learn music. It's definitely good to know theory, but learning musical patterns and studying those will get you a lot farther than simply learning scales. If you do both simultaneously and learn how the music fits within the scales, then you get the best of both worlds.
-tkr