Guitar solo

The Guitare solo (the English term lead guitar is more explicit and more precis) is the instrument which has the “noble” role more within the majority of the musical formations of the current styles (Blues, Rock, Jazz, metal, etc).

In general it is it which carries the melody of the piece; it also makes it possible to the guitarist to carry out the soli who are true signatures (putting rather ahead its technical control).

The invention of the Electric guitar gave him the paramount role that one knows to him now. It is generally considered that the Telecaster of Fender (1950), the the Paul of Gibson (1952), then the Stratocaster of Fender (1954) mark the rebirth of the instrument.

With these new instruments, the instrumental pop music/rock'n'roll, whose melody is entirely played guitar, exploded at the end of the Fifties the (Shadows N°1 in the whole world with, inter alia, " Apache") and with the beginning of the year 60 (the " surfing music" American of Dick Paves and of the Ventures).

Guitarists

Since Bill Halley and his guitarist of Make, Buddy Holly, Hank Marvin of the Shadows, and Charlie Christian in the jazz, the decades busy, one saw appearing true virtuosos such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Joe Satriani, Carlos Santana, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, John McLaughlin, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Eric Johnson, Jean-Pierre Danel or Louis Bertignac. Without forgetting Lonnie Johnson, which introduced the guitar solo into the blues.

These artists became the prototypes of what is called commonly a Guitar hero .

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