What Does Playing Over Chords Mean?
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In this free guitar lesson, I answer the question, What Does Playing Over Chords Mean? If you’re interested in soloing over chord changes, outlining chord progressions, or using chord tone soloing, I’ll explain what you need to do.
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Thanks, Desi, For All That You Do !
May you showed me on the screen about the Chords, but I didn't see at all on the screen. I appreciated your time and showing me how it works.
Thanks Desi for showing several examples of what playing over chords can be. I've been working on this for a while and it helps to know that sometimes it's by the sound, sometimes by notes, etc. Also have found Chapter 8 in Fretboard Theory Vol II very helpful while I'm learning.
Learning music theory through youtube isnt easy but this video helped a lot. I really appreciate it
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I always to says Thank you for your concern about how to it correctly.
I loved the ways you showed correctly. Thank goodness for your concern. PS
I enjoyed the lesson, Desi. This is just what I've been trying to work on lately.
Perfect!
Fantastic info in a concise form... Thanks Desi! Loving your Fretboard Theory Course!
Great video! This video really helps me to incorporate more chords into my blues solos.
Glad to hear it!
Such a clear and helpful lesson, Desi, thanks so much!
You're so welcome!
Really terrific insight and content !
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
Great lesson Desi, very clear.
Thanks Desi, fantastic tips as usual.
How interesting...in your Let It Be example, you're showing how to "play the changes" but while still staying in the same scale, (C major Pentatonic), by resolving the phrase to root or the 5th of the underlying chord. I've never seen anyone show this before, rather they're switching scales to match that chord, usually using CAGED. I always looked at the Let it Be solo as an example of sounding great despite not playing "the changes" or to the "chord tones", yet you just dispelled that. I didn't even realize it was possible, I just assumed if you stay in one scale, the notes of each underlying chord wouldn't be available to me, but in Let It Be's case, it looks like the root and the 5th are available in the c major pentatonic scale for every chord but the F, in which case only the 5th is available. So now my mind is blown and I'm wondering if there is some kind of rule of thumb to playing the changes without changing scales. Desi is unreal, he's also the only one I've ever seen explain how the blues really isn't a 1-4-5, and that explained a lot to me as well.
Glad I could blow your mind, Joe!
Very helpful!
Awesome stuff
V useful 🎉
You are the amazing guitar teacher....
Clear differerence between Blues, Rock, Jazz....
But I dont think we always have to land on chord tone if we embellish melody with enouch chord tone... What do you say about this?
You're not limited to chord tones. You just want to touch on them to tie the lead line to the chords. As you see fit. It's a season to taste sort of thing.
Hi Desi, was listening to your recent podcast (ep104) where you mention this concept as well. What are some good solos to learn to really get this concept « under my fingers »?
Thank you, Desi
Start with the songs I mention in this video. Once you're familiar with the idea, you'll recognize it whenever it comes up in other songs.
I have been working on this as a better solution than playing through pentatonic scale over a particular song key and hoping it lines up well. My initial struggle is if a song has fast or moderate chord changes its hard for me to bounce around the fretboard and then actual dig into to notes quick enough. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I find myself in this generic example (A, E, Bm, D) playing the associated pentatonic over each chord. So moving from A major pentatonic, moving to E major pentatonic, and so on. Any advice ?
Thanks! Your content is and has always been top notch.
It’s important to keep in mind that changing scales and/or targeting chord tones is just one option when it comes to soloing. Generally speaking, most rock solos don’t chase chords, stick in one scale, but touch on chord tones here and there. This approach is less complicated and often sounds better. I would suggest you pick out several solos you like, learn them and analyze them. See what those solos are doing and then base your approach on them.
Great examples, thanks!
Is it me or do you have those pickups really close to the body on that strat? I also feel like all these custom strats (Nash, Tuttle, etc.), sound better than Fenders. I have a nice American Standard from 2013, 2 point trem, fat 50's pickups. I've seen some videos where folks say to lower the pickups, which I guess helps clean them up a bit because the magnets are farther from the strings? Anyway, great lesson, I've been trying to come up with arrangements like this with lead lines on complicated songs. Sometimes I try to even hit the vocal lines if there is time between the chords if that makes sense.
My middle pickup is a little lower than normal. To learn more about pickup height, go here: www.stewmac.com/video-and-ideas/trade-secrets/how-to-set-the-height-of-your-guitar-pickups-for-optimal-tone.html
@@desisernaguitar Cool thank you. Might be the guitar - I also have a maple fretboard. It probably needs a setup regardless but yours just sounds very stratty, which is always a good thing.
@@GuyNarnarian Keep in mind that my Strat is a custom build from Bluesman Vintage Guitars. It has pickups called Dovers from David Allen. And I'm playing through the Kemper Profiling Amplifier using some of the best tones you can get.
So, in a 1 - 4 - 5 progression of A - D - E, I play notes from the A chord over A, then play notes from the D chord over D and the notes from the E chord over E. That also means I am moving from the A to D to E scale as the progression moves along. Is that correct? I think I understand that now.
In a 145 progression you can TARGET notes of the chords if you want that sound. You would stick in the same scale throughout (A major) but just emphasize the scale notes that fit with the chords. A blues 145 is a different story. It's actually A7-D7-E7. I have a video explaining this here: czcams.com/video/MyF0DZA54Zg/video.html
At 2:00 Em7b5? Can't be. Goes nicely with the following E7 but doesn't have a b5!
It's Bm7b5. I may have misspoke or maybe not and it's just hard to hear me.
@@desisernaguitar thanks. I did try listening again and I did try working out what it might be, but couldn't establish it. It's a nice transition. Anyway, thanks for the video.. very helpful
Is this is sometimes referred to as chord chasing?
Yes. Particularly in jazz.
Great info but that guitar sounds horrible. It's so over-modulated the speaker sounds broken. Hard to listen to.
Check your CZcams playback speed settings. You may not have it set to normal.