Andy Aledort - More Soloing Approaches Over Relative Major And Minor Chords
In Deep by Andy Aledort
THEORIES OF RELATIVITY, PART 2
THEORIES OF RELATIVITY, PART 2
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00:00 Hey, I'm Andy Alladort.
00:17 In this edition of In Deep, we're going to continue looking at soloing strategies over
00:20 relative major and relative minor chords.
00:24 We're using as a backing track a song of mine called "Twilight".
00:27 It begins F major to D minor, that's F is a relative major and D minor is a relative
00:34 minor.
00:35 Then it modulates up a whole step but switches the order and it's going to go G minor to
00:40 B flat major.
00:41 I'll play the example and then we'll break it down.
01:00 [music]
01:19 Alright, let's talk about the approach for soloing here.
01:49 The first chord, this F major, I'm going to play F major pentatonic using open strings
01:56 down here.
02:05 So right there it's really useful and I play something like...
02:15 Like that.
02:17 So that's a really useful scale with those open strings.
02:24 But I also use F major pentatonic here like this.
02:35 That position is good too.
02:36 Now the thing to remember that's really important is the notes of F major pentatonic are the
02:41 same as the notes of D minor pentatonic because the song goes from F major to D minor.
02:55 So those notes F, G, A, C, D, F, that's F major pentatonic.
03:02 It's also D minor pentatonic if we start from D. D, F, A, G, A, C. So you start from
03:16 here it's still D minor pentatonic.
03:18 F, G, A, C, D. F, G, A, C, D.
03:25 So I can play all that stuff over D as well.
03:35 And then when you get over here...
03:45 So the point is while you're soloing you have target notes.
03:47 You try to target the chord tones, the major triadic chord tones of F. So the notes F,
03:55 A, and C. But when you're over D minor you try to target the triadic chord tones of D
04:09 minor which would be D and F, D, F, A. So when I get up here you can hear that clearly
04:29 as F, but it's also D minor like that.
04:41 So those are the two positions of the F major pentatonic and D minor pentatonic.
04:46 When I go to G minor to B flat major I'm going to use this position here.
04:58 So you can think of this since the first chord is G minor pentatonic.
05:08 But I also use...
05:13 Like that.
05:14 So G minor pentatonic using those open strings.
05:32 Because you can get a lot of mileage out of that.
05:33 So I do that.
05:40 And I get that high B flat up there.
05:43 And then I could do like a...
05:49 And then...
05:50 The typical G minor pentatonic lick.
05:59 So I'm loosely targeting G minor triadic chord tones which would be G, B flat, and D. And
06:05 then B flat triadic chord tones would be B flat, D, and F, or F, B flat, D over there.
06:14 And then when we get to the C sus chord I do...
06:20 So I just take advantage of the F note and the suspended chord of C.
06:38 So just for a second turns into F major scale.
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