I need asst with solos
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benjamin_lws
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I know the chords in the keys and the I - VII progression. How do I know what scales to play over a specific progression?
benjamin_lws wrote:
Ben- welcome to the site! Have you introduced yourself yet? Could I ask you to go over to the Please Introduce Yourself thread, start a new thread and tell us a little about you. Where you live, how old you are, your musical interests, and how far you've advanced on your guitar journey ie. beginner, intermediate, touring professional or somewhere in between! We are a close knit community and really enjoy getting to know everyone. It's painless, I promise! :laugh:
As far as your question goes, first you need to decide what key the song you are playing is in. If you know the chords in each key this is relatively easy. Don't get tripped up by songs that change keys mid-song!
Once you know the key, basically you can play the scale pattern (a scale pattern is two complete scales) that corresponds to that key or you can play the relative minor scale of that key as well. For example, if the song is in the key of G, you can also play any note in the Em scale and it will sound fine.
So you have two things to do to learn to solo. First, learn all the notes in every scale. And then learn all the scale patterns and how they move over the fretboard. Start with the Pentatonic Scales (five note scales) and then learn the full 8 note scales. After that you can easily learn the Blues Scales by adding the two flatted thirds to each scale pattern (one per scale).
This is not easy stuff to learn and will require a fair amount of memory. But if you truly want to solo, or improvize, over a progression of chords in any key you must learn this stuff.
Reiver is right, use the Acoustic Genius lessons to get off on the right foot!
Again welcome and we look forward to reading your intro on the other thread!
Good luck and let us know how you are doing! :cheer:
I know the chords in the keys and the I - VII progression. How do I know what scales to play over a specific progression?
Ben- welcome to the site! Have you introduced yourself yet? Could I ask you to go over to the Please Introduce Yourself thread, start a new thread and tell us a little about you. Where you live, how old you are, your musical interests, and how far you've advanced on your guitar journey ie. beginner, intermediate, touring professional or somewhere in between! We are a close knit community and really enjoy getting to know everyone. It's painless, I promise! :laugh:
As far as your question goes, first you need to decide what key the song you are playing is in. If you know the chords in each key this is relatively easy. Don't get tripped up by songs that change keys mid-song!
Once you know the key, basically you can play the scale pattern (a scale pattern is two complete scales) that corresponds to that key or you can play the relative minor scale of that key as well. For example, if the song is in the key of G, you can also play any note in the Em scale and it will sound fine.
So you have two things to do to learn to solo. First, learn all the notes in every scale. And then learn all the scale patterns and how they move over the fretboard. Start with the Pentatonic Scales (five note scales) and then learn the full 8 note scales. After that you can easily learn the Blues Scales by adding the two flatted thirds to each scale pattern (one per scale).
This is not easy stuff to learn and will require a fair amount of memory. But if you truly want to solo, or improvize, over a progression of chords in any key you must learn this stuff.
Reiver is right, use the Acoustic Genius lessons to get off on the right foot!
Again welcome and we look forward to reading your intro on the other thread!
Good luck and let us know how you are doing! :cheer: