¶ Soloing through chord changes using simple scales
When you're learning how to solo , learning how to connect to the chords and the changes that are happening becomes really , really important . There's a lot of different ways that you can do this . What I want to do today is just show you a really easy way that you can approach this if you know a little bit about your scales .
So let's go ahead and get started started . All right , so let's start off with something very straightforward , like the A minor and the A minor pentatonic scale . It's okay if you don't know this stuff great or you're not really fast at it or anything , it's perfectly fine . But that's what we'll start with is just understanding .
We have a chord and we have a scale that corresponds to that chord . Now , if you know other scales , you obviously you can use all kinds of different things , but let's just start nice and easy here . So we have a minor and then we have the a minor pentatonic , all right . So let me switch camera angles here . So let's say we have something change .
Let's say we have a chord come up something else . So let's say the next chord that comes up in the sequence is this G , all right . So what are we going to do about that ? Well , there's a couple things that we could do .
If we were in A minor and let's say we know some of the notes that we're actually playing inside this A minor pentatonic , which the notes we'd be playing would be A , c , d , e and G , okay . So over this A minor chord , we might be directing our movement toward the note A , which makes sense .
And again , it's okay if you're not fast at this or anything like that , but you get the idea . So , over the A minor chord , I'm directing my motion toward A . Now that would mean I need to know where A is .
I'd need to know I have an A here and here , and certainly here , and maybe you know , you could bend this note and get an A , you know , whatever . So here comes the G chord . So what are we going to do over that G ? Well , we have a couple things we could do .
We could stay in A minor and simply try and move ourselves toward the note G Right there . So we could stay in A minor but move to the G . So we have this A See , and then I move myself toward the A again , and it works really great to do something like that .
But there are some other options depending on how comfortable you are with what you're learning on the guitar . One thing that we could do is , over this , a minor Again , play in A minor , like we just did , a minor pentatonic . But when it goes to the G , we go to G major pentatonic and we solo in G major .
Now I could play that here and that's perfectly fine and I could solo in there . But what I want to show you is I I'm gonna move to the next position right here , okay , instead of playing here . I'm gonna move up . And play in what I'll call the second position of G major pentatonic . So instead of playing it here , I'm gonna play over this position .
Why ? Because I'm putting the two positions in the same spot on the guitar . That way I have A minor play over this position . Why ? Because I'm putting the two positions in the same spot on the guitar . That way I have A minor pentatonic here and G major pentatonic sitting right here , which would be 3 , 5 , 3 , 5 .
Excuse me , 5 , 7 , 5 , 7 , 5 , 7 , 4 , 7 , 5 , 8 , and then 5 , 7 . And of course , my G would be right there . So I still want to know where my Gs are . I'd have a G down here , which is a bit out of the position , but it's there , okay . Then I'd have G there and G there , okay .
So what happens is because I'm playing a different scale , the notes are a little different , so I have A minor .
G and especially this note right , because when we were playing A minor , pentatonic I was playing this note , which is C Okay if you don't know that , but that's what that is and when I was playing G major , I was getting this note , which is B . So for me that becomes a really important note because the ear hears that and it responds to it .
So if I'm playing A minor , then here comes G it sounds really nice , okay , and we could keep going with this idea . Let's say , we went to an F , okay . So now we had this position , the first position , then our second position would have been sitting right here , but now we want to be up here .
So now I'm gonna move to what I would refer to as the third position of major pentatonic , and again , it's okay if you don't know this . So I'd be playing 5- , 8 , 5 , 8 , 5 , 7 , 5 , 7 , 6 , 8 , and then 5 , 8 . And you can see why it's important to know these pentatonic positions . But I could put that over the top of so , over this , a minor .
G E Okay . Now , if that seems way too much for you , take a step back to the first thing we talked about , where you could just stay in A minor pentatonic the entire time , but change the note that you're emphasizing . So when that G comes up , well , when A minor is being played , we go to A . When the G major comes up you go to G .
But here's the discrepancy when F comes up , there's no F in this , a minor pentatonic . So we'd have to add it in and that's okay . We could just add that F in over that particular chord
¶ Using non diatonic chords in music
. Where this doesn't really work is when all of the chords that you're trying to play over are not part of the same key . We call it non-diatonic . So what I mean by that is , let's say you were playing something where you're playing A minor and then it goes to G minor instead of G major .
Sometimes , when the chords start stepping outside a little bit , or , even weirder , we go from A minor to A flat minor . You see , you can't just stay in that position anymore and hope it all works out . You'd actually have to move a little bit , like we were talking about where I would follow that chord around .
Okay , you don't have to follow the positions or anything
¶ Find what works for you, explore, visualize
. It just depends on what's comfortable for you , but it's something to think about . On what's comfortable for you , but it's something to think about . So what's most important here in this lesson is grab something of any of those ideas that makes the most sense to you and just explore them a little bit . You don't need 15 different chords .
You might just use two chords , just A minor and G major , and just move back and forth between those and figure out what works best for you in what you can visualize , what you understand , and then also what is the next thing for you to work toward . All right , so take care , stay positive , do me a favor , like , share and subscribe to this .
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