Video Guitar Lesson 14: Dual Guitar Parts And Ideas For Soloing In A Covers Band

In this lesson, Dan and I take a look at some of the songs which I am performing with my band and so we focus on the dual guitar parts. I bring several songs which I am learning with other musicians in our covers band ready for a gig we will be performing in Brighton. We first look at American Girl by Tom Petty, with some talk about inversions and effects. Secondly, Dan gives me some feedback on some dual parts I came up with for Neil Young’s Cinnamon Girl. Next we pay the Smith’s What Difference Does it Make? a quick bit of consideration. We finish this lesson off by some discussion with usable ideas for the solo in Substitute by the Who and the outro solo for Feel Like Makin Love by Bad Company. As always, there are plenty of other examples thrown in to assist Dan’s explanation of his ideas and ways of approaching dual guitar situations and a good improvisation session towards the end of the lesson. Our next lesson 15 will return to the solo at the end of Feel Like Makin' Love as we look at some tips on transcribing. Timings for the SoundCloud audio version: 00:02:39 Learning aims and some shout outs from social media 00:08:09 Introduction to the topic of the parts for songs I'm playing 00:09:05 Gary introduces his part for American Girl 00:15:46 In the spirit of the 80s you could put a nice big wobbly chorus on it 00:16:13 Two part phrase using different inversions 00:17:42 Second set of chords 00:19:56 Considering effects as of a time 00:22:32 How to approach a bit of a song which is quite sparse 00:24:45 Don't forget that "less is more" 00:25:32 Always ask whether you're adding something to the mix 00:26:56 Sparse rhythm for Comfortably Numb 00:27:58 Start of quick look at Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young 00:31:31 Making up second parts on the spot 00:35:01 Using two very different guitars for greater separation 00:35:17 What Difference Does it Make - Smiths 00:37:17 Harmonizing Johnny Marr's guitar part 00:43:52 Solo for Substitute by the Who 00:48:20 Two ways to play Creep - Radiohead 00:52:21 In the style of Green Day - rougher playing 00:53:50 Basket Case - Billie Joe 00:55:29 Embrace all types of style but seek the good 00:56:37 The solo for the One I Love by REM 00:59:21 Solo at the end of Feel Like Makin Love - Bad Company 01:04:59 Overbends as well could be really cool for improvising over this ending 01:06:08 Accent the rhythmic riff of the song