Solo like a pro using chord tones

hey guys thanks for popping in hope you had a good uh or having a good holiday season I'm still in a costume here make sure I can deliver presents um I like doing these spontaneous lessons I make a lot of notes on ideas for lessons and don't always make them and then I suddenly think of a spontaneous thing that I think would be helpful so here's what I'm going to do with this one I'm going to look at two chords under the premise that in almost all music you're only moving between two chords the one chord whether it's major or minor and the five chord whether it's minor in diatonic or change to the seventh chord okay so you should know your major and minor chord sequence diatonic chord sequence right and C you know major minor minor major major minor half diminished or diminished Triad back to the major right so the V chord is actually minor but we often turn it to a seventh chord it just sounds amazing right so minor and then a seventh so we raise the third make it a major chord that's from harmonic minor all right so three minor scales only one major scale now let's get back on track so if we're going to do a G minor to it to a D minor and that's it and then think of it as the V chord is a D7 right however you want to do it I'm going to show you each scale degree how they match with each chord right so think of it like this and I'll do different octaves so you gotta stay with me here you got to know your fretboard a bit to follow this right so in G the one scale degree one obviously works over G real well all right but it works over the five but it's a sus4 right or [Music] right so it can work but you got to be careful it's either gotta go up or it's got to come down right okay the two it's an a obviously works real well over the D minor and the D7 that's the fifth it's the ninth of G minor sounds great [Music] all right we hear Jimmy do that so it works on both but it's part of the five chord the three well that's the flat third G all right I'm playing a minor scale B flat that's the minor third of G you better know that one right [Music] it's uh it's a good one it's the minor third of the G can you play it over the d uh not so much it's not not really not a great tone it will create a new chord it will create create the sound of a flat six chord right so avoid on the five chord the next note C while that creates a minor seven on the five chord and creates it's the flat seven right on the seven chord so when I said I created a minor seven because it's a minor chord and that's a flat seven C and then on the seven chord it's still a flat seven but it's a major chord so great to to to resolve into that right you don't have to just hit the root on a lick right no you could end on the seven right now how does it work on the on the uh one chord the G it's a sus so in case I'm thinking Andy Summers right uh uh you know Roxanne those last two chords foreign it's pretty cool but mostly it's a five chord tone the five D it's in both chords so you can just hang on a d chord [Music] A D notes over both the G and both the D equally well all right it's it's a real strong stable tone moving on right [Music] E flat a little bit of gunk in my volume pot here damn Gibson's uh so E flat what's it good is it is it good on the G passing tone right you can't sit on it it's actually a tone from the four chord can you play it on the V chord okay so as a seven yeah it's a flat Knight right can you play it on the minor less so less so it's not great you know uh it doesn't really work flat nine on minor it's just a sound that's not not very popular so F this is the natural minor scale so f grade over G minor right you could just hang on you don't have to resolve it it's part of the chord be a minor seven chord right [Music] how is f over D Minor it's the minor third it's beautiful right [Music] on on D Minor it's it's the it's the minor third how is it on a D7 [Music] still a minor third but now you're clashing with the major third so right you've got that real Blues thing if you want you could play the F over the seven chord for sure right [Music] um and that brings us back to G so maybe approach progressions like that and soloing don't just you can blanket a chord progression with a lick you know and play the same lick over over both chords and likely it'll work but targeting the tones of the chord is maybe a more melodic way to play and and you are thinking of where you're resolving more right so again unedited uh I'm not gonna I'm gonna cut this at all just uh if that was helpful please let me know please consider liking and subscribing and asking for specific content I'm happy to customize some uh these lessons these online things instead of my in-person things lessons and uh yeah you guys have a good happy New Year and uh again please comment reach out thanks peace

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Length: 6min 54sec (414 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 27 2022