Lesson Snippet; Major Chord Soloing (Patreon)

With the permission of my student, I'm sharing a short clip from one of my Zoom lessons the other day as I thought it might be of interest to you guys too.

Some thoughts on how to target chord tones and the use of major and minor pentatonics. String bends galore for adding extra expression.

This is a simple two chord progression; A major to G major. I'm thinking of A major pentatonic over the A major chord, (and making a point to target notes from the A major triad), and I'm thinking of A minor pentatonic over the G chord.. (while targeting notes from a G major triad too of course).

My student had then asked how modes can be applied to this progression, in which case we can think A Mixolydian, followed by G lydian, (the V and IV chords in the key of D).

This is the type of simple exercise that I highly encourage everyone to do regularly.