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Chord Tone Soloing Secrets (Patreon)

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2023-06-16 16:49:24
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2026-06

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Hello all! This week, I'm discussing how I think about playing over chord changes, an approach sometimes referred to as chord tone soloing, or playing the changes. 

If you want to move beyond just noodling about in a scale, this approach can be a real game-changer, and lead to much more melodic and interesting solos.

Tab can be found below. A did a mammoth tabbing session yesterday and tabbed out every example in the video, including my intro solo. hope you find it useful.

My backing track is coming up in the. next post.

Have fun's peak next week!

- Adrian 

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Chord Tone Soloing Secrets

In this video I discuss my approach to soloing interestingly and melodically over chord changes. Tab and backing track can be found on Patreon (pay what you like): https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar My beginner soloing course: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases Hi 00:00 Intro soloing 01:08 Chord tone soloing? 02:37 The chord progression 04:35 Root notes 07:07 Triads 10:16 Playing out of chord shapes 13:43 Arpeggios in position 14:52 Gear used in this video 18:13 Bye 18:52 Please subscribe here for many more YouTube lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/anyonecanplayguitarcouk Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk Social blah: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/acpgtr Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk

Comments

dearan ferris

Have you got any more courses in the works, Adrian? (Like the solos one)

Peter Healy

Hi Adrian. It's funny how the timing of different lessons comes along at the right time on the rare occasions. This is one of them. I have been struggling with my "lead" playing in the last couple of months, I felt I was in a rut, playing the same thing over and over. I was aware of the "play the changes" as a concept, but making the connection left me lost on the fretboard. I have been working on the basic Theory stuff since the beginning and slowly but surely I get the different links between the Theory and the practice. This lesson is one of those and really clarifies this concept for me and provides a practice structure I can use to move forward. Starting with the Chord progression, then the Root notes, Triads etc. One other thing do you have any updates on any new Courses coming up soon? Did you mention an Intermediate Lead course (I did your Beginner Lead course) as well as the Post Punk course? Once again thanks for the effort you put into this, it is certainly a fundamental part of my Guitar journey. Cheers Pete

Jurgos

Simply the best, Adrian

Roberto Cabello

thanks Adrian, this is what I´ve been looking for so long! greetings from Spain

Fendley Stewart

Adrian, so many great ideas in this lesson. The recommendation to start with root notes and progress to triads and chord arpeggios gives me so much to work on! Thank you!!

Mark Norman

Serendipity has also struck me several times over the past 13 months that I have been following Adrian's lessons. This one came at the right time for me too. I feel so lucky that 5 days after I decided to dedicate myself to guitar, Adrian's Patreon site crossed my eyeballs.

Ben Ziegler

Evocative of Pavement's 'Fin' 😎 great progression to jam over. Thanks Adrian!

Haroun Haroun

this lesson reminds me of that Stitch Guitar Methods lessons with his mind numbing Santana and Greatful Dead chord tone lessons, yrs are better, of course.. Hey, have you cottoned onto 'the King' Takashi Terauchi yet?? https://youtu.be/XJ52aW0HVkI

Geoffrey Winn

thanx for the pdf. A lot of work for that and incredibly helpful.

Chris Chambers

Hi Adrian The B minor triad that you show in the video 12th on the D 11th on the G and 12th on the B. I might be being completely stupid and it probably something very obvious that I just can't see. Where is that little shape coming from. If you could just explain that to me it would stop me stressing over it as it probably something so simple that however I look at it I can't see. Great lesson again. Thanks Chris

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi Chris! Yes, the notes in a Bm triad are B D and F# and this is a first inversion shape, meaning the 3rd is the lowest note, so D F# B. you could think of a simple D min open chord and move the F at the first fret down an octave to the 3rd fret on the G. That's the shape which you can then move around. The root is on the B string. Hope that helps. I did a video a while back on major and minor triad inversions which will give you a more detailed explanation. If you search triads on here you should find it!

Gregor

Just want to say thank you. Playing this is really hard for me, but after several days of practicing I can play it the way you are doing it. I think there is nothing more appropriate for me in the World Wide Web to improve my guitar skills. Thank you!

Robert Bachmeier

Funny thing. On my "to do" list, one of the things is learning to play over the changes. I love how the all keys triad workout you did recently helps me connect to this. Great lesson.

Brian West

Hi Adrian, This is a great lesson and very useful thanks to all the work you have put in. I just have one query and that is in your video you explain the chord progression and mention the penultimate chord as a C#maj7 and on the pdf tab sheets you have put in G#7 is this just a typo???

John Ford

Looks like Adrian hasn’t gotten around to answering this, but It is G#7, not C#. There’s some text in the video, making this correction, but it’s easy to miss. I only saw it when I rewound the video 😊

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi guys, sorry I missed the original comment! As John says, it should be G#7. I made a slip in the video, and annoyingly there's no way to post an on screen correction once the video is live. So a text correction under the video was the best I could do. It's correct elsewhere in the video and in the tab though so hope it's not too confusing!

Brian West

Thanks Adrian no worries