Nov
04
Soloing Over Chord Progressions
ByThe exercises don’t sound like great music yet, but other techniques that I will discuss in the future will spice them up! Hopefully you can see the potential. Also, listen to the sound of each note over the chord (roots, 3rds, 5ths). Try to sing them without playing your instrument sometimes. Trying adding vibrato and a bit of rhythm to the notes once you get them down. On the mp3, I go thru each exercise without stopping but you can focus on each part before you progress to the next exercise. The last exercise I play a faster eight note idea but it still uses the basic framework on beats 1 and 3. If you want more info on this topic, check out this book on chord tone soloing
Will – I just came across your recent video on YouTube and went to your web site. The write-up you did with the “Soloing over chord progressions” blog is so completely on the mark. I took up guitar a year ago (at age 40), and spent the past year learning basic chords, pentatonic scales & some songs (well, mostly just riffs from songs), and have been getting to the point where I can make some basic bluesy sounds, but haven’t been able to find anything that takes the next step – as you say: how the heck do you make music out of all this stuff?? Anyway, your site looks like a great start. I’ll be back in the coming days to scour over all the stuff you’ve put out here for us poor beginners. Thank you!
Thanks Matt! Good luck with your guitar playing – it’s never to learn to start, or to keep learning guitar!
I’m doing a lot thinking about how to teach guitar using songs, so your post has encouraged me that I’m on the right track! Enjoy the lessons (many are advanced), but in the future I will be hopefully providing a better method to learn guitar than random studying of scales and chords.