instrumental solos
Wordless featured passages
Instrumental solos are passages in music where a single instrument plays alone or takes the lead while other instruments provide accompaniment.
In popular music, the guitar solo is the most iconic form: The song builds to a two-minute instrumental solo.
Jazz features extended instrumental solos as musicians improvise over chord changes.
The term also describes standalone pieces performed by one instrument without vocals.
- harpPlucked orchestral strings
- drumsStruck membrane instruments
- drum fillShort solo between sections
- solo breakUnaccompanied featured passage
- cadenzaExtended solo passage
guitar · guitar solo · piano · improvisation · virtuoso · violin · classical · classical music · arpeggios · unaccompanied · vibrato · cello · slide · wah pedal · shredding · riff · ornamentation · legato
- concertospiano concerto, concerto, violin concerto, piano concertos, violin concertos
instrumental solosensemble performances
Collaborative group presentations
chamber music · duets · trios · quartets
instrumental solosvocal solos
Single-voice musical performances
vocal performances · singing · vocals · a cappella · lead vocals
instrumental solosaccompaniment
Supplementary support element
backing tracks · rhythm section · background music · comping · vamps