The Simplicity Of Lead Guitar

What you are aiming at when you commence learning lead guitari s to become one with your instrument. Playing guitar will eventually become as easy as whistling. It is possible. Really.
Ever wondered why when you watch somebody doing a guitar solo, you are NOT blown away by their dazzling fingerwork? It just looks so easy. The reason for that is that there are quite simple methods to begin playing lead guitar without doing a whole lot of work on modes, scales, muscle memory and other guitaristic tomfoolery.
A major element of lead guitar playing is utilising the pentatonic scales. They are called pentatonic because they only have five notes.

Here's a pentatonic scale in the first position, the notes being E A D G B:
E-----------------------0-3-0------------------------------
B-------------------0-3-------3-0--------------------------
G--------------0-2-----------------2-0---------------------
D----------0-2-------------------------2-0-----------------
A------0-2---------------------------------2-0-------------
E--0-3------------------------------------------3-0--------






Here is the pentatonic scale in A. You can use this pattern all along the fretboard to play in different keys:
E-----------------------5-8-5------------------------------
B-------------------5-8-------8-5--------------------------
G--------------5-7-----------------7-5---------------------
D----------5-7-------------------------7-5-----------------
A------5-7---------------------------------7-5-------------
E--5-8------------------------------------------8-5--------
Once you've practiced the pentatonic scales till they make you puke, all you need to solo over the chords of any song is the name of the key the song is in.
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