The last tip is to create a great foundation. Then play all of the partitions together, connecting the dots as you complete the solo. Learn the first partition first, repeat it as much as you can until you really feel comfortable playing it, and move on to the second partition. My second tip is that you should break down the solo in partitions. Never forget that quality comes before and speed comes later. You should just play it properly and build up the speed later. The first one is that you should start slowly. You should pay attention to the following 3 tips when learning the solos: Every one of them has something to teach you and make you practice some techniques while making you feel like a rockstar playing some of the most famous solos of music history. Luckily, there are many easy guitar solos in every genre that are educative and fun to play simultaneously. This is a process every lead guitarist passes through before mastering their instrument. But more than often, great solos are pretty difficult which require time and patience to play.īefore a beginner guitarist plays advanced stuff, it is a great idea to learn some easier solos to build up some speed, comfortability, and technique which will give you the confidence and technique to play your desired solos. I mean, if that's what the people wanted, I could do that."īelow, the Followill brothers recall the five songs that changed their lives.Almost every beginner guitarist dreams of playing their favorite solos, which rock the audience with awesome techniques, speed, and melodic compositions. I was afraid that people wouldn't like my lyrics, so I was singing them muffled. Obviously getting back to singing like that I'd have to force it a little bit because back then I was trying to mask what I was saying. "I'm still playing the same guitar from the same amp. "I don't feel like it would be a hard thing to do," Caleb interjects, contradicting his younger brother. "It's like a basketball player who has horrible form but still makes threes, and he becomes a better and better player but they're like, 'Man, I wish he would shoot it like he used to.' It's hard to go back to something once you've moved past it." But we weren't trying to have a certain kind of sound or write super simple parts because it was cool, it's just all that we could do," bassist Jared Followill says of the band's musical evolution. "The style of writing, we could probably tap into really easily. It also happens to be their first American number 1. As frontman Caleb Followill puts it, to "rekindle that love that we had in the beginning." The resulting album is Kings of Leon's most focused and joyous since its breakthrough. While recording its latest album, WALLS, the group - comprised of three brothers and their cousin - hoped to recapture a bit of that early days fire while retaining the winning alchemy of the latter releases. Two years later, on the back of singles "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody," Kings of Leon were one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
In the wake of a 2006 tour with U2, a new batch of songs emerged, offering a more spacious sound with a decidedly pop sheen. If the first two releases are chock-full of piss and vinegar - a homespun hybrid of the Strokes and the soulful classic rock of their southern brethren, complete with requisite tight pants, big beards and moral depravity - the five that followed share an altogether less acidic tone. There's a not-so-subtle divide in the Kings of Leon's musical output, which stretches 15 years and seven albums.