First of all, this article will not make you a soloing genuise, and its only intention is to provide you with a little bit more information to get you one step closer to learn guitar solos that you like. In order for this to really work, I'm going to have to give you tips as though you were wanting to be creative and write your own guitar solos. This may seem strange to you, but learning someone else's work and coming up with your own requires the same set of skills. So lets look at these skills.
Develop your ear to learn guitar solos. This one seems obvious but people neglect it none the less. This isn't an over night thing, but the more aware of it that you are, the more that you can devote to training your ear. You don't need perfect pitch, just the ability to put a visual sense of your guitar neck with what you are hearing. This simply takes a lot of experimenting and practice. How did I do it? I listened to every type of music that I could get my hands on and then picked out pieces of things that I heard. This helps you learn the landscape as I would call it of the fretboard.
Do learn scales and modes. I'm pretty famous for saying something that guitarists consider blasphemy. Scales and modes are not the key to writing or learning a solo. However, they can be the building blocks if you choose to use them like that, and most importantly they will again over time familiarize your eyes and ears with the fretboard.
Now, if you are reading this and you just want to learn a specific guitar solo that's plaguing you, you can jump to tablature, but most tabs are innacurate, and don't capture the feel of the player. You can always have a teacher break a solo down to you, or you can have a teacher who will help you learn and master guitar playing by teaching you what makes the threads of the fabric of solos.
They all have many things in common, but to learn and master guitar in order to do so is empowering, and fun. learning guitar is in the long run one of the the most rewarding things, and the little perks never stop coming.
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