Solo Generator
Press Create solo and get a new guitar solo of about a minute, shaped like a story: a theme, a development, fast runs, a climax and a calmer ending. The solo is drawn as tab, played over a backing track, and one tap on Save as favorite keeps it for later.
How to use it
- Pick a key, a tuning and a style. Neoclassical gives fast scale runs and sweeping arpeggios, melodic gives singing phrases with bends and vibrato, pentatonic gives bluesier lines.
- Set the difficulty, length and tempo. A lower difficulty means calmer phrases and fewer fret jumps.
- Press Create solo. The tab is drawn right away. Press Play to hear the solo over a backing track, with drums and a metronome if you like.
- If you like the solo, press Save as favorite. The settings and the seed are saved, and the solo comes back exactly as it was. To practice it, save it to the library and open it in Tab Player.
How does the generator build a solo?
A solo that sticks has a shape, not just fast notes. The generator therefore splits the solo into five parts: a theme that presents an idea, a development that varies it, a fast section with runs, a climax high up the neck and an ending that lands on the root.
Themes come back in varied form, for example moved a step in the scale or with a changed rhythm. It is the same device many guitarists use to make a solo feel like a melody.
Which styles are there?
The four styles pick different tools from the same toolbox.
- Neoclassical: scale groups, sweeping arpeggios and tremolo picked passages, often in harmonic minor.
- Melodic: slower phrases with bends, vibrato and slides, sometimes with a harmony a third away.
- Pentatonic: minor pentatonic boxes with fast licks and bends.
- Mixed: the generator chooses freely between the three.
What does the seed mean?
The seed is a short value that drives every random choice. If you keep the seed and change the tempo, key or style, the solo is rebuilt with the same basic idea, so you hear the difference between the settings.
Frequently asked questions
Does the generator copy famous solos?
No. Every solo is built from rules about how melodic death metal is usually put together: scales, harmonies, phrase lengths and technique choices. It contains no transcribed solos and reproduces no specific notes from any song.
Does the same seed always give the same solo?
Yes. The same settings and the same seed give exactly the same solo every time and on every device. Type the seed and press Use seed to get a solo back.
Can the solo be played on a real guitar?
Yes. The generator stays within reach of the hand: it checks the fret span, string changes and how fast the notes follow each other. On lower difficulties the phrase speed and the jumps stay lower.
How fast does it get on the highest difficulty?
On level 5 the runs can move in sixteenth notes at high tempo, with sweep arpeggios and tremolo picked passages. It is meant as something to grow towards, not something to play straight away. Lower the tempo as far as you need.
Where are my favorites stored?
Only in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. A favorite is just the settings and the seed, a few hundred bytes, and it lives under Saved.
Can I get the tab as a file?
Yes. Save as alphaTex gives a text file that opens in alphaTab based programs, and Save to library adds the solo to your songs in Fabbe.
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