solo techniques

[videodrone]

do i play notes that are an octave above the 2nd guitars chords?

or play the same notes as the 2nd guitars chords,

what tends to work with solos and tends not to work, any tips for those beuaitiful pink floyd solos,

 

[jjtcorsair]

Ummm errr what?

 

[dragonworks]

Most of the pink floyd solos are very easy pieces in the scales of the key the songs are written in. Money, uses b minor and b pentatonic scales. Try using the relative minor scale for the major scale the song is written in but start the relative minor scale on the root of the key the song is in. Example, song written in G major, use the e minor scale (G's relative minor) and use the g in that scale as the root you work off of. To find the relative minor just move down three frets from the major you are working in and that will be the root of the relative minor scale to that key.
Examples
Major Relative minor
D B minor
A F#minor
C A minor (both scales have no sharps or flats)
etc.
Drop a piano down a coal mine=B flat miner.

 

[dragonworks]

Most of the pink floyd solos are very easy pieces in the scales of the key the songs are written in. Money, uses b minor and b pentatonic scales. Try using the relative minor scale for the major scale the song is written in but start the relative minor scale on the root of the key the song is in. Example, song written in G major, use the e minor scale (G's relative minor) and use the g in that scale as the root you work off of. To find the relative minor just move down three frets from the major you are working in and that will be the root of the relative minor scale to that key.
Examples
Major Relative minor
D B minor
A F#minor
C A minor (both scales have no sharps or flats)
etc.
Drop a piano down a coal mine=B flat miner.
Another sure fire method is to copy the melody that is sung in the song and work off of that.