Generally speaking if its just you and an acoustic guitar, guitar solos are not the first thing that comes to mine. After year of being the lead guitar player though I was not all that ready to let go of doing solos.
I have been experimenting lately with adding guitar solos to my solo act. Actually it works as long as you keep a couple of guidelines in mind.
1. If you are loudly strumming open chords a solo will drop the bottom out. If your play more sparse you do not lose momentum in the solo.
2. Hit a bass note or a chord every now again.
3. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm,. Pay attention to it. That is what's going to hold your song together when you break into a solo.
Here is an example of a solo I have been playing with for my version of Stray Cat Strut by The Stray Cats. It is based on the solo from the original recording but I have modified it to work for my solo acoustic set.
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