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Lesson 14: Soloing and Scales If your wondering how guitar players can instantly improv a solo and have it mesh perfectly with their song, your search ends here. Scales are an integral part of soling in music. Used 100% from jazz guitar players, rock players, acoustic players, and metal players. The scale a song is based on determines the songs key. If your playing notes and chords from the given scale the notes are garunteed to musically mesh with the song your playing too. There are lots of ways to find the scale of notes to play. If your reading professionally written jazz chart music for example, you've just got to look at the key signature. If you don't remember from past lessons the key signature is the group of little sharp or flat symbols by the time signature and treble / bass clef. Now all you have to do is play notes, but if your playing a note that corresponds with a line that a flat or sharp is on, you play the flat or sharp.
For example, the bars shown above have a couple weird symbols. The first key signature shown here (three flats) says the piece is in an Eb major key. Playing up the lines, you've got Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb, C, D, Eb, and there is your scale! Its as easy as that. Now, those symbols that look like they're made up of two L's in the middle are called naturals. They basically cancel the flats (or sharps), making the key a C Major, with simply the notes in sequence, with no sharps or flats. Then the four sharps in the next key signature make it an E Major key. Playing that scale up the staff the notes would go: E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#, E. Notice that if there is a sharp or flat on say, the A space, then the A above the staff, and the A below the staff are also A sharp / flat respectively. The A above the staff is on a "ledger" line. This means it is out of range of the normal scale. The diagram below show a low C note, specifically the one played on the third fret of the fifth string "A."
This chart shows the different key signatures. There were 3 flats in the example we looked at earlier, there fore the chart tells us the music is in Eb.
Another way of telling what notes to play is by manually simply looking through a piece of music. Say your playing a G chord for a bar, well a great way of playing a solo is putting your left hand in the position of a G chord, but then playing single notes at a time. Or playing G notes up and down the scale. Remember that a G note can be found up two strings and up two frets from any other G. An exception of course is the G string. If you were playing a G on the D string and wanted to find the note the string above it, you'd have to look up three frets instead of two. (this finds another position of the exact same note.) All you have to do with this method is keep picking and remember to Change chords as you would normally for the particular song. < Previous | NiceaXe.com | Lesson Fifteen >
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