Red Hot Blues! - Speed Up Your Blues With Flashy Fretting!

Always wanted to fly around the neck like your blues-rock heroes? Well, now you can get the ‘wow factor’ into your solos with Andy Saphir‘s 10 essential legato exercises and all-star legato speed jam.

- Andy Saphir

Most guitarists have fantasised about being like their heroes; taking centre stage before a crowd of thousands and launching into a fret-melting solo, thereby cementing themselves forever into the hearts of generations of guitar players. Well, if this is you (it certainly is me), working on your technique is essential if we are to develop the speed and fluidity necessary to play similar types of flashy lines.

Now we all know that good guitar playing isn’t measured simply by how many notes can be crammed into a second (although some would seem to think it is); and what makes a great solo can be largely subjective, creating many a healthy argument among us guitarists.

However, I think most would agree that a great combination of musicality and technical skill is needed if we are to have the tools to be able to combine tasteful melodic playing with the ‘now it’s time to blow your socks off’ type of flashy lick; the type of lick that’s so intrinsic to all the great blues-rock players.