Guitar Soloing Over Chord Changes

The full lesson and free jam track can be found here. http://www.fretmeup.com/soloing-the-changes/

How to create smooth flowing guitar solos over chord changes.

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Music

Tags:

• lead
• guitar
• lessons
• rock
• blues
• pentatonic
• scales
• chords

[attyrebest]

I'm relatively new to theory. I know than in a 1-4-5 or 2-5-1 progression you can just solo over the whole progression using the "1" chord. Couldn't you do that here as well?

[fretmeup]

@attyrebest

This example changes key with each chord change so sticking with one scale would probably not sound very good. It focuses on targeting common chord tones to make the transition smooth between changes. Getting to grips with this idea will also make your solos sound more natural even when you are staying in one key, even soloing over a 145 you should be taking notice of the chord changes and playing to them, not necessarily all the time but in moderation works very well.

[Matheus222]

I wanna ask something, but first I wanna repeat what xlaz13x said: "this is an awesome video, i wish i had found it a long time ago"!!

Okey my question: What scales should I use for "Dm, C, Am, Dm" progression? There's a major chord there..

If you explain that I've understand the secret fully! :D Thank you!!!!!

[fretmeup]

Those chords all belong to the key of c major so that would be a good scale choice. However because it starts on the D minor you might find it has a d minor tonality, you'd probably go for D dorian instead. If you want to stick to pentatonics then D minor pentatonic will work as well. I could digress further but the comment box isn't large enough, here's an thought... Dm, Cmaj and Am pentatonics all use notes in the key of C major, the idea in the video could be used with those scales.

[Matheus222]

I've already tested that, it sounds really awful with C major scale...

Right now I use D minor Pentatonic scale, and it sounds good but not good enough. It doesn't fit.

And I don't know modes, so D dorian...?

[fretmeup]

Matheus, when you find something that works you'll probably find yourself playing C major even if you don't realise it. What you have here is a good example that deserves an answer more than I can provide in these small comment boxes. I will try to explain this on my website, in the meantime try this and let me know if it sounds any better. Over the Dm chord play the D minor pentatonic box but only using the 3rd and 4th strings. For the C and Am chords do the same but use Am pentatonic.

[letterbekmen]

This is more helpful than a bunch of queers talking for 20 minutes

[SuperBendecho]

best lesson ive seen in a long time, less talking more studying.

AWESOMe.



[rickneibauer1]

gay

[dirtygrungeshit]

@fretmeup ..its a awesome lesson..can u explain me how i will know tht dm c am dm belong to c major???plz help me out of this..

[wartarot]

@attyrebest You could play a major scale over 251 but it doesn't sound interesting. Better to treat the 5 chord as a Dom 7#5 or b5. Play the whole tone scale or altered scale over this chord. Altered scale is the same as the melodic minor but starting a semi tone up from the root.

Over Maj 7 chords you might want to get used to using the lydian scale, that way you avoid the natural 11 in the major scale which clashes with the chord.

[quadraSpazed]

guitar novice here. It's not often I come across a lesson that makes much sense to me at my level. This is a great lesson. It tied a lot of things together for me. I knew pentatonic positions but never really new how to effectively use them. Thanks very much and please keep posting lessons.

[boywhosucksatlife]

One person doesn't like to solo on each chord change

[tylerdwells]

Good lesson! This is what Ive been searching for for the past few months!

[shredamir]

Top lesson. Thanks