Chord tone soloing - I wish someone gave me this lesson

[Jeremy_Green]

Hey all, was just chatting about chord tone usage when soloing. It reminded me to bring back a blog post I wrote a while back. So I figured I may as well also share it here with you all, because it's a very helpful concept to understand. Hope it helps!

Chord tone soloing - I wish someone gave me this lesson!

On the journey that is guitar, there are certain observations you make over time. Over these many years, and after learning how to play countless guitar solos, one thing above all else has become abundantly clear. Most soloists use chord tones during their solo. What is chord tone soloing...

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[schmee]

Yeah, sometimes it takes years for that light to go on! Of course this is what the Jazzers do, you find them playing 6 chords where most of us play 2 or 3 and they pick a note out of each chord in the process.
Similar to scales and how they repeat going up the neck, which is obvious if you think about it but it took me years to start focusing on it.
Combining both is your search for notes in a solo or melody gets big rewards!

Now if I would just do what I know..........

 

[Hodgo88]

Well written, and I think easy enough to understand. I think it's not uncommon to look back and say "boy I wish this had been taught to me sooner", but I also think getting to the moment where it all begins to click is a journey that offers few shortcuts.

 

[Jeremy_Green]

Well written, and I think easy enough to understand. I think it's not uncommon to look back and say "boy I wish this had been taught to me sooner", but I also think getting to the moment where it all begins to click is a journey that offers few shortcuts.

Yes, there’s lots of wisdom in the old, Buddhist saying:

“when the student is ready, the teacher appears”.

It’s so true. Sometimes you simply aren’t ready to be able to recognize when something really matters.

 

[chris m.]

I stumbled across a Rick Beato video where he talks about how he discovered the concept of playing chord tones over chords when learning Sultans of Swing. He then goes on to show some cool arpeggio variants, such as playing 1 3 4 5 b7 8 instead of just 1 3 5 8. Try it, sounds great. Also 1 3 4 5 8 is nice, too.

 

[Jeremy_Green]

I stumbled across a Rick Beato video where he talks about how he discovered the concept of playing chord tones over chords when learning Sultans of Swing. He then goes on to show some cool arpeggio variants, such as playing 1 3 4 5 b7 8 instead of just 1 3 5 8. Try it, sounds great. Also 1 3 4 5 8 is nice, too.

Yeah that’s a great sound, really just a dominant arpeggio (with a sus4) in.

I use dominant sounds a ton. I love the flexibility of it because it has both a major sound (due to the 3rd) and a minor sound (due to the 7th). Plus because of the blues people’s ears are conditioned to accept the sound.

Very useful to have in the bag.

 

[Oxidao]

“when the student is ready, the teacher appears”.

I get the idea, and the charts may be very helpful.
Thank you