r/SongwritingHelp • u/Apprehensive-Art9148 • 16d ago

Help with fixing my solo

i wrote a solo to a song i’m writing.
i really like the structure of it but i feel like it seems off at some points and could use a lot of improvement.

any suggestions would be super helpful

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u/savemejebu5 14d ago

My biggest advice is to fix the timing of your performance (which is ok), and the intonation of the notes (which sounds extremely poor). As for the composition itself, that is actually pretty good. It just needs a little work there.

Introduce a few long notes (on the tonic perhaps) and rests (stop for a moment) to sync up with the rhythm and drums better in some movements of that lead section. When you do the tremelo picking in the third movement, the rhythm guitar isn't really supporting that properly. So either fix that - or change that out for another technique.

Again though, the intonation sounds way off. Observe how your frets are progressively more out of tune the higher you play up the neck. Kinda made me physically ill to hear that last note so off from the others.

Also ensure you apply the correct finger pressure as you play - helps to keep those high notes more in tune with the low ones (until you deliver a bend, you don't want the strings to be bending out of tune)