Chords for Lincoln Brewster - Today is the Day Guitar Solo

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_ _ Today is the day you have [A] made I will [Bm] rejoice and be glad in [D] it
Today is the day [A] _ _ _
_ _ you have _ made I will rejoice and be glad in it
Hey, this is one of the [G] guitar solos on the new record on the song Today is the Day and I'm just going to give you a real big picture overview on it. _
Some of you might know this but I've got a [N] DVD volume coming out, my first instructional DVD.
Volume 1 is coming out September 23rd so if you're watching this video after that date then it's already out.
I'll also be releasing Volume 2 in the first quarter of 2009 and that will have a bunch of stuff from the brand new songs on Today is the Day.
These will be unpacked much more in detail so it will probably take anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes on each song and just take you through step by step how to do these.
So it will give you a _ 50,000 foot view on some of these solos right now.
So let's take Today is the Day first.
_ [D] _ _ So I start that [N] song kind of down low and I used a similar model that I used on Everlasting God where I start the solo in a lower register and then it ends on a higher register.
And I like the solo to be its own composition unto itself so that it kind of builds and really builds the song and really adds something to it.
So I'm not a fan of putting solos in music just for the sake of putting a solo but I like having solos in there where they really add something to the song and they [B] give you an ear break from the vocal and when the vocal comes back in it sounds fresh again.
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So this solo has got a little melodic line as it walks up the neck.
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[C#] _ I like [A#] those singable lines.
_ [D] So it kind of walks up.
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That [F#] little phrase right there is actually a little tougher to play than it seems because of the phrasing of it.
[F] _ _ It's all [E] upbeat.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ And I went for a little answer to that line.
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I thought it was [C] kind of a nice little answer to finish off that first [G] half.
And then I went to a little more flashy line up top just to [B] lift it up a little bit.
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_ [B] a little [A] climb from the low register and you'll feel this ending kind of crescendo real fast at the end.
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_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ It ends on that high note.
So when you're coming up with your own solos I think it's cool to look at them as a composition.
Try to do something maybe that builds and goes somewhere so it's not just constantly playing up high immediately and playing fast and all that stuff but really try to make it say something that adds [D] to the song.
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