How do you choose notes?

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if you hep cats want, i cant post all the blues scales known to man, or atleast me. i play tenor sax as my main insturment, im in my schools jazz band, so i get alot of one on one jazz instruction, so if you want ill put them up, i just left the sheet at school.

freak
 
Bass Freak said:
if you hep cats want, i cant post all the blues scales known to man, or atleast me. i play tenor sax as my main insturment, im in my schools jazz band, so i get alot of one on one jazz instruction, so if you want ill put them up, i just left the sheet at school.

freak
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I'd dig that the most daddy-o!
 
This is a cool thread.

Just wanted to say thanks.

For me, most of my solos are pretty simple and revolve around the melody of the song or get bluesy with the minor pentatonic.

So all these ideas are great in expanding my playing style.
 
I either slide down to find a starting point and rip it up from there, or I bend the dog-shit out of any ol'note till it "hits" and rip it up from there...for me, I make a quick decision based of the key, tempo, feel, etc, as to whether some really high notes would fit, or some mid-range notes, or low end stuff...mostly attitude and feel...if you bend the hell out of a note you can make it fit.
 
Cool thread. I started on piano and have a strong theory background but have never been much of a blues/rock player. I just started taking guitar seriously a few years ago and am just now starting to really explore soloing.

It's tough to learn from other players because most guitarists don't seem to have a clue what they are doing. Especially blues players.
 
TexRoadkill said:
Cool thread. I started on piano and have a strong theory background but have never been much of a blues/rock player. I just started taking guitar seriously a few years ago and am just now starting to really explore soloing.

It's tough to learn from other players because most guitarists don't seem to have a clue what they are doing. Especially blues players.
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LOL..... you noticed that? I've taught guitar lessons to a number of middle and high school kids who played piano first. Here's the thing that will be most different for you. To play guitar leads it isn't always necessary to know the notes you are playing.

Here's why...
Your piano had 7 to 8 octaves arranged in linear fashion. The guitar for most purposes has 6 octaves (excluding the cut away portion). These octaves are an octave of E,A,D,G,B,and E. They are not linear. They are stacked on top of each other and occupy the linear space. Therefore, guitar is often a matter of playing patterns or sequences which include notes from more than one of these octaves. Sequences that are placed in different parts of the neck to accomplish different keys and different modes or scales. The exact same hand motion can almost always play the same riff in any key, or any mode.... depending on the location of the hand. You don't find that with piano.

It relies heavily on improv because nobody scores out guitar solos in music that you are used to seeing the way piano music is written. (tab is like nothing you have encountered)

The same music theory that applies to the piano applies to the guitar. But few learn it because it isn't altogether necessary to play adequately.
 
i choose notes in 3 ways, generally:

1) sing out the key notes, adjust on guitar (usually cheezy results)

2) use minor penatonic notes on the down beat, fill in off-key notes in between

3) play a weird chord (anything besides maj, min, 7ths) that somehow go alone with the progression, and break down that chord into solo notes. This doesn't take whole lot of theory, but interesting results.

or a combo of the 3.


PS. if there is no rhythm guitar playing, it's a totally dif story.

AL
 
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