Legends in any field will tell you that mindset is key to success, and playing bluegrass guitar is no exception. But you might feel lost—what DO you even think about when you’re building (or improvising) a solo?
If you’ve ever sat down to build your own break and felt unsure of where to start, this session from my 2025 Virtual Guitar Camp is for you, going step-by-step through the thought process behind a solo you can be proud of!
Discuss the Guitar lesson: Soloing Process, Improv, & More— Virtual Guitar Camp!
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Wow, the shirts and the hair in that video clip, I think that is what my playing is missing. Although I don’t think I could grow my hair like that anymore.
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adding chord tones is what i was missing. i could sound it out and then think wow that basic but adding those tones is a lightbulb moment.
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This was very helpful! I am picking the guitar back up for our gospel band and having been trying to learn solos. This is going to help me a lot!
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Hi Ben, will these tabs be available as tabledit files as well? That would be great!
I don’t think I have these in TEF, sorry! Don’t know what happened to them.
Wow, great lesson ! New for me was to keep the chord shapes (and inversions) in mind when soloing. That’s a great tip ! Gives you notes that you can never be wrong with (if that’s a sentence, sorry, I’m Belgian 
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