Hi harles.
I watched that video and this is basically my approach to soloing ... outlining melody with chord tones and using other notes to link them where needed. The trick is to see chords for what they actually are ... chords are not really little clusters of notes that you can play at once, they are in fact a collection of notes that stretch from one end of the fretboard to the other. Once you can see each chord in the piece of music like that, you can then easily turn those notes into melody, and melody that is always relevant to the moment. Have a look at the
Anatomy of a C chord lesson ... it shows you what a C major chord actually looks like on a fretboard ... the whole chord. All chords can be 'seen' like this, no matter what flavor.
My book/DVD
PlaneTalk describes and demonstrates a very simple way to keep track of it all. By 'simple' I don't mean that you'll be soloing with confidence within days, it takes a whole lot of playing and practicing and retraining your fingers to get away from linear scales and attack the mattrix of chord tones from a different perspective, but once digested, you will never wonder 'what scale?' again. You'll just be thinking chords and melody ...
BTW, in the video, the player demonstrates the neat trick of imagining a chord that isn't really there, and plays through its tones. There are many such 'tricks' that you can use once you start seeing melody as disassembled chords rather than scales ... those seemingly complex and convoluted sounding lines are a piece of cake once you can see the fretboard in this way ... you're just playing through another chord, and you get to know the various ways of weaving it all together.
BTW2: Even though there are hundreds of chords 'out there', they can all be mentally bagged into just 3 groups: Major, minor, dom7. The rest is mere detail.
