I deleted this video because of a copyright warning. LOL.
-Hank
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Yeah major sucks, I can never think of phrases that don’t sound cheesy. I much prefer Lydian!
Great voice by the way.
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yeah play lydian, or mixolydian over dom7 chords.
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Major used to be a tough sell for me as well but I think if you can sneak in some hip chord voicings in there like sus2 or 6add9 while emphasizing some of the cooler, more tense notes in the chords then you’ll be in pretty good and mostly non-cheesy shape. And yeah chucking in some Lydian and Mixo notes or chromatic passing tones is a great way to spice things up.
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Also, remember that your minor scales your used to have relative majors, which are the exact same notes… For example, A minor pentatonic is the same notes as C major pentatonic… So if your playing in C major, you can play the A minor scale you know already, and recycle licks… the only learning curve is learning what chord tones will sound nicer for resolution.
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Here… I played something that sounds Major. lmao. 
Well, for one, that pesky fourth breaks down the harmony hence everyone recommending trying lydian. It’s considered “the most consonant scale” and avoids dissonance with its raised fourth.
Eliminate the fourth and we’re down to six notes—worth exploring. Eliminate the major seventh, and well, we’re back to the pentatonics demanding less caution, and extra creativity, imho.
Furthermore, in contrast to the major scales, minor scales have so many optional and directional note choices that when shredding one is relatively “safe.”
My two cents.
Cheers,
Daniel
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p.s. Keeping the fourth and adding an additional note, the flat sixth, we have octatonic major bop scale. Basically a Maj6 arpeggio with a note between each chord tone.
TGIF, eh? 
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Adding to what I mentioned about maj6 arps, I do recommend trying out “four note scales” composed of only primary chord tones. Different way of thinking about arpeggios for most shredders probably (?), looking at them as tiny scales to draw from… e.g. C E G A over Cmaj. …as opposed to running them up and down.
Cheers,
Daniel
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In my inexperienced opinion, there is no difficulty in soloing in major keys- it comes down to a lack of licks or lack of time spent in a major key (or in my case, both). Think of how much of your guitar life have you spent in a minor key? Probably most of it…
Yeah, there’s nothing hard about soloing in major, vs any other mode or tonality. 
Just do it more. It’ll get more comfortable.