Man I had one of the best expiriences a few weeks ago in Worship, one of the orginal members of me churches praise band came back for his vacation(why in the world he came to Michigan instead of someplace nice is beyone me) but anyway when he walked in the door he was carrying a gig bag. I sat down and began to tune up the Ibanez Artcore I am borrowing from another church member and then out of nowhere this guy whips out a all original 72 Strat
. He sat down and immedietly started warming up and playing like he used to. He was a amazing lead player with perfect pitch and could solo over anything. While we were running through the set he kept lifting it up to his ears so he could hear what he was playing, then he looked at me and asked if he could play the Semi-Hollowbody Ibanez I was playing so he could hear what he was playing, I said yes so I got to trade guitars for the service and got to play one heck of a Strat. That is the good part.
Now for the Bad, immedietly after he left to go home with that beautiful strat
the PW leader came to me and said "man I miss having him on the team." Don't we all. So lately she has been looking at me and trying to get me to play lead, the only problem is that I don't know how and next thing I know I walked into praise team practice this week ready to just keep strumming and low and behold she tells me I am not playing chords this week but that I have to play lead so we can break in the new distortion pedal she bought that should make the sound guys happy
, they don't even like my guitars clean sound but oh well no one argues with the PW leader, and I like a little distortion.
Here is the Ugly part, since I don't know how to play lead I am wigging out and stressing over this and a ten page research paper I have to do for college. Can someone offer me some tips on how to play lead, maybe some advice on what not to do, or even some websites I could go on and learn to play for free with minimal downloading. I am really stressing out because I stink at all things improve on my sax let alone on the guitar. Please offer any advice possible it will be much appreciated because right now I
