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0:00 I'm going to teach you a quick and effective way to start soloing over any type of song and it's going to require the least amount of Music Theory possible and before we Dive Right In be sure to stick around till the very end of the lesson because I've got a free gift for you and your guitar that you're gonna love okay so basically the soloing system Narrows your options down to two basic musical categories major and minor and musically you can say a whole lot with just major and minor so we're going to start there what it'll also do is help you narrow down what tonality you should go for whenever you hear a track that you want to solo over okay so now let's relate this whole thing to the fretboard so let's say we're in the key of A all right and we want to have our major and minor tonalities what we're going to be using are these simple four note groups that we're going to be able to span over three octaves so starting for in the key of A we're going to start with
0:47 the minor tonality right which is actually going to be borrowing just a fragment of the minor pentatonic scale we're going to start with the fifth fret on the D string then seventh fret and then fifth fret and seventh fret on the G string so just those four notes is what we're going to be working with and you may be wondering hey four notes isn't enough to make a solo believe me it is so what we're going to do is we're going to take this for note grouping we're going to expand it across three octaves so we happen to be in currently the middle octave with this position here so what we're going to do is find the lower Octave of these four notes so how to do that we're just going to shift down two Frets one two and then down two strings one two and we're going to play that exact same thing
1:35 and now we've found we've played that exact pattern and now we found those notes so we're going to be third fret and fifth fret on low E and then third and fifth on a same as these now we're going to find the upper octave okay so what we're going to do is we're going to shift over three Frets right from the seventh fret here on the G string shift over three Frets and then go down two strings one two and then we have now we're in the neighborhood of that third octave so it's eighth fret tenth fret on B and eight ten on high e so we now have these four notes in three octaves and this is just the minor tonality right this is more than enough to craft a solo just
2:21 to prove it to you before I even throw on any backing tracks I'm going to go ahead and just you know just I don't know play something see what happens [Music] so that's our minor portion of this right and we use what I like to call the three for one octave system right where we have just this one little box of notes and then we expanded it across three octaves right so we're getting three for one we get this middle octave is upper octave then this lower octave and now we get to learn the major portion of this which uses the same system right we're just going to adjust where it sits on the fretboard so we're going to
3:09 shift from over here right when we were on between uh the fourth sorry the fifth and seventh Frets we're going to be shifting down one two three three Frets here so in this now middle octave area in the major tonality it's between the second and fourth Frets on the D and G string for this middle octave part anyway right so we have second fret fourth fret on D second fret fourth fret on G so those are our four notes that we're going to expand using the three for one octave system so finding the lower octave we're going to shift down two Frets one two and then down two strings or sorry up two strings one two and then we're actually going to be entering into the territory of open strings so we got open E then second fret open a second fret so same as these notes
4:02 right and just to kind of show you even though it's open strings just to show you how the pattern would have would look just like this right if this happened to be a fret over here and so if we're going to find the upper octave right we shift over three Frets one two three and then down two strings one two and then now we have seven and uh sorry Fifth and seventh Frets on the B and high e strings all right so that's our three for one octave system right for the major notes in the key of A [Music] and just like with the minor ones we can totally make a viable solo just using the major portion but let's put this to the test I'd say we have plenty of options to create a nice solo using major and minor tonalities now which you're actually going to be using and to what ratio you're going to be using
4:50 each one really depends on the style of the track you're playing over but we're going to start with a blues track since it's pretty uh common to go back and forth to uh for major and minor almost on an equal level so let's see how that works out foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so in that example I was sticking with what we just learned and adding some
5:46 Liberties here and there as far as embellishing the notes you know so you don't want to just you don't want to do that because it's just static and it doesn't feel musical the whole point of breaking the notes up like this and not using just a singular scale pattern is because this type of layout kind of forces you to not noodle so much right it's easy to to go up and down a scale in a linear fashion when you have all of the the notes laid out in a very ergonomic pattern but in this case they're a little more spread out right and it's just the same four notes and three octaves so it forces you a little bit more to really milk those notes and find some creative uses of of them and that's why I say you know you
6:32 have full uh full uh uh you know free reign to do little things like bends vibrato slides that kind of thing just to make them seem interesting and feel authentic and hey real quick if you're getting a lot of value out of this lesson be sure to hit that like button and consider subscribing to our YouTube channel if you haven't already it really helps us out and lets me know that you're enjoying these lessons that I should be making more of them for you all right let's get back to it with the blues we were able to get away with the more equal ratio between major and minor but let's switch to something that really heavily prefers one or the other [Music] thank you [Music]
7:30 [Music] [Applause] [Music] so in that example that was more of a pop rock style backing track definitely favored the major tonality more so than the minor but I still wanted to find places to you know throw the miner in there even though it was going to be in select spots so I try to just lean heavily on major and then when the backing track shifted a little bit then maybe that was a good time to just kind of throw in a little bit of minor but I kind of had a feeling that if I stayed there too long it would just start sounding a little too bluesy and it
8:18 would no longer fit the style of the track and by the way the key of that backing track was the key of E so I adjusted accordingly to fit that key so where I was essentially if we were to start with the minor tonality further up here on the fretboard uh the middle octave part is going to be 12 and 14 on dng all right and then the lower octave is going to be between 10 and 12 on the A and low E string all right and then in the upper octave three Frets over one two three down two strings so between 15 and 17 on the B and high e strings [Music] and for the major tonality we're going to be between the 9th and 11th Frets on the d and g strings that's in the middle Octave
9:07 of it then lower octave is between uh seven and nine on low E and A right upper octave is going to be between 12 and 14 on B and high e and now as a final example why don't we switch to a style of backing track that tends to favor more minor pentatonic than major [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh
9:54 [Music] so in that example is more of a straight ahead rock kind of sound right which I think tends to favor minor pentatonic because minor pentatonic sounds a little meaner you know when you start getting into the major tonality it brings in that sort of happy sound which you know isn't always the most rock and roll so what I did there was kind of the inverse of what I did in the previous track I was leaning heavy on the minor pentatonic right using the minor tonality of our little system here and then once I felt like I could throw in just a little bit of major stuff here just to quote it and then go right back to the minor pentatonic so that it kind of came home before it got a little too distracting where I was just spending way too much time in the major tonality and as you may have noticed
10:44 that backing track brought us right back to the key of A so to sum it all up this simple method of soloing allows you to play over any style of song all you have to do is think to yourself does this prefer major or minor and of course if you don't really know just by listening you can just start playing and just use trial and error kind of decide for yourself because your ears will tell you if something sounds good or not if something works musically or not so you know trust your instincts and if you find that you know you tend to prefer how the major tonality sounds over a specific style of track or how minor tonality sounds over another style of track that'll kind of help you narrow things down so that way in the future when you start playing over tracks of similar Styles you already kind of have an inventory of like what's going to work between major and minor and you don't
11:31 even have to worry about getting too into the weeds as far as um you know those like even more complex tonalities like like using the modes and stuff like that that's all great and that stuff will obviously come but you know right now major and minor you can cover a whole lot of ground I could argue most of the what you know as far as music just goes between those two so you got more than enough to work with right now now what if I told you that you can take what you learned today and apply it to any musical key you can pass possibly think of and expand it even further so that you're playing not only over any song but you're playing it with Comfort ease and confidence now I just so happen to have the very thing that'll get you there remember that free gift I was telling you about well got it right here this bad boy is the fretboard conveyor belt it's a system that has helped
12:21 thousands of guitar players online learn how to name the notes on the fretboard and play in any musical key under the sun and you're going to get a free copy today be sure to click here to claim that free copy or check the link in the description box and with that said I want to thank you for hanging out with me today I hope you've enjoyed this lesson as much as I've enjoyed bringing it to you I'm Eddie with guitar Mastery method and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson [Music] foreign
