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Old March 7th, 2007
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Originally Posted by Hey
So then how do you solo then with just chords? just make it up with the chord position?
You need to be able to see chords for what they really are: a selection of notes that stretch from one end of the fretboard to the other. Once you can do that, you can use those notes as primary melody notes. You also need to see that a piece of music comes one chord at a time, so if you can see those patterns of chord tones changing as the song progresses, then your melody notes will always be 'right' for that moment in time, no matter how tricky the progression may seem to someone trying to juggle half a dozen or more scales, modes and boxes.

PlaneTalk describes a very efficient way to 'see' the fretboard in order to achieve the above.


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