Comments on: Practice Session 1 – Chord Tones http://www.fretmeup.com/chord-tones-1/ Free Guitar Lessons Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:33:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lee http://www.fretmeup.com/chord-tones-1/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Lee Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:07:16 +0000 http://localhost/testvb/?p=88#comment-629 My advice is don't complicate it. This lesson is about learning the notes and nothing else. Get them embedded into your brain so that you can play, and find the notes on autopilot. Chord tones on their own will always sound 'right' but predictable and boring. The 'musical' sound comes with experience and tons of practice by mixing lots of ideas together. The idea here is to learn them inside out, play them over and over until you are so familiar with them that you can play them with no thought or effort. Once you can do that, you should find that you can use chord tones to colour, and add spice to your solos. In other words, you could play a solo based around licks and scales but having the ability to think about the chord tones effortlessly will allow you to incorporate them easily. It's one of those things that you can't quite 'get' until you get it. Just keep practicing them over and over and eventually you should see your solo's improve naturally. A good thing to practice with this chord progression is to play the C major scale or C major pentatonic but try landing on a corresponding chord tone with each chord change. Learn some arpeggios for each chord, keep doing it regularly and gradually you will start mixing all your ideas together with ease. At this point the chord tones will start sounding musical. Hope that makes sense! :) My advice is don’t complicate it. This lesson is about learning the notes and nothing else. Get them embedded into your brain so that you can play, and find the notes on autopilot. Chord tones on their own will always sound ‘right’ but predictable and boring. The ‘musical’ sound comes with experience and tons of practice by mixing lots of ideas together.

The idea here is to learn them inside out, play them over and over until you are so familiar with them that you can play them with no thought or effort. Once you can do that, you should find that you can use chord tones to colour, and add spice to your solos. In other words, you could play a solo based around licks and scales but having the ability to think about the chord tones effortlessly will allow you to incorporate them easily. It’s one of those things that you can’t quite ‘get’ until you get it. Just keep practicing them over and over and eventually you should see your solo’s improve naturally.

A good thing to practice with this chord progression is to play the C major scale or C major pentatonic but try landing on a corresponding chord tone with each chord change. Learn some arpeggios for each chord, keep doing it regularly and gradually you will start mixing all your ideas together with ease. At this point the chord tones will start sounding musical.

Hope that makes sense! :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.fretmeup.com/chord-tones-1/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Anonymous Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:37:12 +0000 http://localhost/testvb/?p=88#comment-628 Thank you for the lesson on Chord Tones. How do you get the chord tones to sound musical? Is there anything I can do to sound musical instead of sounding like I am practicing the notes? Thank you for the lesson on Chord Tones. How do you get the chord tones to sound musical? Is there anything I can do to sound musical instead of sounding like I am practicing the notes?

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