How Do I Can I Improvise A Good Guitar Solo In Different Genres?
Natural Minor and Harmonic Minor are good for metal. Check out Marty Friedman’s work with Megadeth for some fine examples. For Rock, depending on the style (hard rock, southern rock, blues rock, etc), you can use Natural Minor, Dorian, Pentatonic, Major or Mixolydian. You improvise solos well by practicing within the particular style of song you want. For metal, you’re generally going to be soloing in natural minor, so practice that scale, and do it all over the neck of the guitar. If you have a sequencer, you can set it to just pedal on a certain chord, and practice your scales over that chord. Also practice bending notes. If you can already play the blues, you should be able to play metal. Pentatonic scales also work for that. For Rock, do the same thing, but with major, pentatonic and minor scales. If you want to play something that sounds a little jazzy, or like the Allman Brothers Band, throw a Dorian scale in the mix. If you want to play something like an Eagles song in a major k
