Improvising Guitar Solos 101 - This free lead guitar lesson teaches the basics of learning to play your own guitar solos.

Improvising Guitar Solos 102 - Expand your lead guitar solos with these guitar licks.

Targeting notes in your lead guitar solos - This guitar lesson covers how to emphasis the root of the A minor pentatonic scale on the guitar.

Extended Minor Pentatonic Scales - Learn to expand the range of your lead guitar solos with these extended minor pentatonic scale forms.

Filling in the Cracks - This lead guitar lessons teaches an easy way to add some chromatic notes into your guitar solos.

Basic major pentatonic scale solos - Learn how to incorporate some major sounds into your guitar solos with the major pentatonic scale.

Beyond the Pentatonic - Lead Guitar Lessons

The Minor Scale - Expand your guitar solos beyond pentatonic scales with a look at the minor scale on the guitar.

The Sultan's Triads - Add some flash to your guitar solos with these major and minor arpeggios derived from the Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing".

More lead guitar lessons

Improvising over key changes - Lead guitar Ideas for the rookie Jazz guitarist, and improvisers of all styles. This guitar lesson teaches you how to solo over key changes.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Bob Murnahan*
Lead Guitar Lessons From Freebird - Video Guitar Lesson - Guitarist Bob Murnahan shows how lead guitar ideas pulled from " Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd can be used as a springboard for your own guitar solos.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Michael Chodosh*
Pentatonic Modal Studies - Michael Chodosh shows how to connect pentatonic scale shapes with various chord shapes all over the neck of the guitar.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Darrin Koltow*
Scales for Soloing - Guitarist Darrin Koltow from MaximumMusician.com gives a series of tips on how to use different lead guitar scales to solo.

Pentatonics
Other Pentatonics
Blues

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Mike Philippov*
Improving Your Improvising and Soloing Skills - Guitarist Mike Philippov gives some tips on how to improve your guitar solos.

Guitar Licks For Improvisation

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Kristofer Dahl*
Video Guitar Lick: Major Tapping - In this video guitar lesson guitarist Kristofer Dahl shows you a very cool major guitar lick that uses arpeggios, and right hand tapping.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Kristofer Dahl*
Video Guitar Lick: Minor Pentatonic Kirk Hammet Style - The video guitar lesson by uitarist Kristofer Dahl shows a minor pentatonic guitar lick in the style of Metallica's Kirk Hammett.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Kristofer Dahl*
Video Guitar Lick: Major Sweeping - Guitarist Kristofer Dahl shows you a major key sweep picking lick

David Gilmour - This guitar lick comes from the intro to "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.

Elliott Randall- This lead guitar lick comes from the intro to "Reeling in the Years" by Steely Dan.

Brian Setzer - Here is the intro lick from the song "Stray Cat Strut".

Stevie Ray Vaughan - This lead guitar lick comes from the main riff of "Couldn't Stand the Weather".

Jimmy Page - Here is the first guitar lick from the solo in Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin.

Brad Nowell - Here is the guitar solo from "What I Got" from the group Sublime.

Eric Clapton - Here is a major key guitar lick from Clapton's version of "Stormy Monday Blues".

Mike Campbell - Here is one from Tom Petty's right hand man. This is the intro guitar solo to "Refugee"

Randy Rhoads - Go off the rails on the crazy train with this lead guitar lick from Ozzy's most influential guitarist.

Billy Gibbons - Here is a minor pentatonic guitar flurry from ZZ Top's La Grange.

Neal Schon - Learn the entire intro guitar solo to "City of the Angles" by Journey. The guitar solo is broken down into 5 separate licks.

Carlos Santana - Add a little black magic to your minor key guitar solos.

Slash - Have a little "Patience" and learn this lead guitar lick from Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash.

Angus Young - Shake it all night long with this guitar lick from AC/DC's lead guitarist.

Mark Knopfler - From the Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing". This guitar lick will make it cry and make it sing.

Mike Einziger - Defy gravity with this lead guitar lick from Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger.

Kirk Hammett - Add some spice to your guitar solos with this one from Metallica's guitar wizard.

Jimi Hendrix - And the wind cries...Hendrix.