Can a guitar player still complete his solo if he breaks a string while doing a live show?

Question

Can a guitar player still complete his solo if he breaks a string while doing a live show?

Answer 1

if you are just chording you could get bye to end the song but if you are picking it would be harder you would have to find the note on another string.

Answer 2

herman lee broke a string while reccording a cd cus he pulled the tremolo to hard

Answer 3

As long as he knows the fretboard up and down, yes, and sometimes depending on how good he is, no one will ever know unless they happen to see the broken string!

Answer 4

yes just end it of descending on the scale so it wont look stupid but cool instead

Answer 5

yea he just has to play the same note on the next string over. or the octave but that would change to whole voicing of the piece soooo. yes but it would be more difficult because he would have to think about what playing the same thing would be on the next string.

Answer 6

if he doesn't need that string. but most guitar solos at live shows are close to the album not exact

Answer 7

oh yea.you just freestyle.do what you can with the string that are left.

Answer 8

ooh yes my friend...when it happens use a different strings i fidn that actually the B and e (the two thinnest strings) are the best to use for solos...and it's rare if 2 strings broke so don't worry bout both breaking...so yeah just have fun with solos...

Answer 9

Definitely...

It happened to me once or twice on tour and nobody knew the difference. You have to be a quick thinker to re-direct your lead to other positions.

If you know your fingerboard, that will not be an issue. I broke the 4th & 3rd string once.

I had to switch between high's and low riff discounting the missing string.  The funny part  of  this is that I still used the riff in the same position and playing on the broken string instead of wasting energy on how i should replace such and such a note. Note, this was only on fast riff.

If the lead part are on 1st or 2nd, then you really have to sub but not on the low strings.

Answer 10

of course he can! as long as he knows what notes on other strings are in the scale, and his way around the fretboard