Why You Should Solo With Chords (Not Just Scales...)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
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Are you an intermediate guitarist who has been stuck in a soloing rut for years? Or even decades?
If the answer is yes, then I’m guessing you’ve grown tired of playing the same licks over and over again…
This course teaches you how to ditch your stale, repetitive licks and instead, begin playing tasteful guitar solos that ooze melody and feel!
The best part? You can learn how to do this WITHOUT learning ‘exotic’ guitar scales, wasting hours trawling through RUclips lessons, or spending a penny!
That’s right, I’m giving this course away for zero dollars (for the time being…), so act today to grab it with free, lifetime access.
Here’s a tip-of-the-iceberg overview of the main benefits you can expect to experience when you study the curriculum of “Melodic Soloing With Triads”:
✅ You’ll move beyond the limitations of a purely scale-based approach to guitar soloing… so that you can stop feeling stuck inside scale patterns and boxes
✅ You’ll learn to target the notes that create a strong connection between your licks and the chords they are played over… so that you can stop playing repetitive un-musical licks and begin crafting melodies
✅ You’ll stop aimlessly wandering the fretboard, hoping to land on notes that sound good… and start improvising with the confidence of a pro-level guitarist, who always knows which notes to target for an epic solo
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Thank you so much Ross! I am a big fan of yours! You have helped me so much with my guitar playing.🎸🎶
Signed up. 😉
i signed up! wholy guacamole!
Thank you so much!
This free course is amazing. It goes deep and the free pdf's are robust. to say the least. Why you are giving it away I cannot imagine. Ross is a really good teacher who knows how to bring the student along step by step. I wish I had understood the fretboard when I was much younger. I learned music theory from piano lessons, and it is easy to visualize triads and inversions on the piano, and the diatonic chords of the major scale. At age 74, I struggle to apply that understanding to the fretboard. Visually the fretboard is so much busier with notes overlapping from string to string. I have yet to find the "key" that enables me to see it clearer. Have struggled to learn each note on the fretboard as Ross suggests, have not mastered that yet. I will keep at it and would appreciate any suggestions.
3 notes in and I immediately hit the subscribe button. You have THE tone.
100% correct. I would add, "don't be afraid to play chromatic runs, i.e., several notes each one semitone apart, as part of the solo." Even if the notes simply do not fit either the chord, or the scale you imagine, the runs will sound right as long as they start and end on a chord tone.
No, no, no-no jazz passing-tones, please. Dear God, no.
@@Foe1971 When I do it, it doesn't sound like jazz, even if I want it to! Still sounds ok though. More like country guitar, really.
@@1man1guitarletsgotry using the Barry Harris chromatic scale
@@ZCBeats1 Thank you. I'll look that up.
@@Foe1971😂
You are the GOAT of RUclips guitar lessons, Ross. Your old Bulletproof course helped me solve years of plateau. Thanks for making this incredible content free, legend.
you can just watch me playing on my channel to learn what he is saying... I always use chord shapes in my phrasing...
Hey man, I just wanted to give you a sincere THANK YOU, coming from the typical intermediate player, who spends way too much time surfing RUclips ,trying to get better but never really learning anything. AMAZING !! You actually give the answer to many questions I was having. You are the first person that has given me the key, and kept it interesting. So again thank you so much!
so 10 days ago i watched your video, then tried the lesson and focused on the triads. my improvisation sounds so much more melodic than before. following the chords has changed the game. thank you again. can't wait to take the rest of the free course. such great content and teaching
@@wagonet Hell yes! Awesome to hear
I've come back to comment on this video, it's taken a while to get the triads, inversions down, but i'm slowly able to 'follow the chords' and my soloing has drastically improved. The key for me, was to do it slowly and practice until i can 'see' where all the chords are using triads. it's been eye opening. I'm slowly breaking out of the box, this video and lessons are invaluable
That free triad lesson was such a gift, thank you.
Thank you! 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it
I'm thankful to be getting to the point where these "meta" type lessons are as helpful and informative as those "Play this note, then this note..." lessons were a while back. Because of people like you.
I find that learning to play the melodies of my favorite songs on the guitar has helped me breakout playing the same patterns. It’s been a game changer in my solo playing.
These lessons are really valuable, even to an experienced player. The upside down guitar example shown in this is giving me a hard time though.
Took me many years of noodling to figure this. Once you can see the chords on the fretboard it's a wow moment. Great video. Really well explained
Also you got me singing Andy Timmons Electric Gypsy with those chords and your solo
really? That song has no lyrics, what did you sing? lol
I learn all of this when i started playing piano. Since this concept is easier to do in piano. All i say is playing piano will bring so much melodic concept and music theory to your guitar playing.
Yes easier to see in piano because piano octaves are linear and notes are easier to visualize as well as chords.
'...how to actually make music..." well said, Ross, your playing is beautiful!🔥
Can't wait to get stuck into this course! I'm excited to see what other videos / courses you have in the works. I'd love to see some more Jazz-Blues Soloing & Comping/Rhythm stuff!
Completely agree! I was stuck in the same pattern. Once I switched my visualization to triad-based it opened more doors as well as my ears.
Thanks for the course, Ross. What a fantastic gift. And at the perfect time too because I’ve been trying to really dig in on triads recently. Between your Bulletproof course and your Blues soloing book you have been instrumental in helping meet push past my intermediate plateau. Can’t thank you enough. Keep up the great work and your fantastic playing!
I really appreciate all the production details you put into this video, on top of your talking and playing
This is a fantastic course, it answers the questions regarding the chord and melody relationship.
Thank you!
Thanks for the access to the course ❤
Thank you for this Ross!🔥
This is exactly where I'm stuck. Thank you.
i just signed up for the free course and will buy your ebook, your lesson taught me a lot.
Ffs 🙈 can’t thank you enough Ross it all makes so much sense 👍🏻🙏🏻
I did the scales thing for 15 years before I was introduced to this! Thanks Ross! And Guthrie!
Great advice Ross, spent years learning scales then a few years ago discovered triads and now playing far more melodically and musically
Top lesson Ross. Received the triad course. Couldn’t recommend highly enough your bulletproof guitar course which I’ve been working on recently. Thank you for your amazing amazing lessons.
Thanks so much!
Andy Timmons Vibes ❤
Tx for the free course ❤! Cheers Lars.
Thanks for these amazing lessons! These lessons are so practical and helpful.
Good stuff! And that Strat sounds so good.
I remember once I saw a short of you doing a solo with triads and I commented: could you do a complete class on this? And I didn't know that you were already preparing it, and it's not just a class, it's a very well constructed course. Looking forward to what you will offer later. Thank you so much, God bless you!!!
Thanks for the free acces to the course. I still enjoy your bulletproof courses I purchased and benefit from this in my playing. Hope you can succeed what you are looking for in Nashville. Best of luck,Ross'!
Jaco Pastorius's dad told him to learn the melody for every song first. I think that's good advice. That gets the dedicated pentatonic wanker like myself to find surprise notes outside what I'm used to. Discovering how notes match up with the chords in surprise ways give me a whoosh in my head sometimes lol.
If you learn the pentatonic and use it religiously with I-IV-V patterns as a beginner and early intermediate, then it only stands to reason there must be more scale patterns you must know that go with the other multitude of chord patterns. But that's only asking to get stuck playing scales for the rest of your life and wondering when the magic is going to happen. :) So yeah you are right on.
Yeah youre right! If you can hear the melody, its way easier to then get the harmonic structure (rather than the opposite).
But, don't underestimate the appeal of a slow paced exploration of the instrument. Some musicians go to music school, know their stuff pretty well and still cannot be confortable musically when interracting. For those who strive for exploration and surprise would rather take all risks and fail than be safe but boring oneself with predictable paths.
This was very timely for me. Just started truly understanding how important CAGED/triads are for soloing. For the longest time, I've known both of those but never really put together as to how to integrate it with my usual scale soloing. Thanks Ross
Thank you so much for this great lesson - and its totally free. Bless you 🙂
Thanks again, mate. I hope it's going well for you out there!
Good information. Very clearly explained. I’m working with these ideas now. Thanks.
This is something I've experimented with before. I know there is a way it's just remembering all the chords especially the advanced ones I tend to forget how to play.
Hi Ross thank you so much for the free course. I got your beyond pentatonics book and funky blues lines course both of which are fantastic.Thanks for sharing your knowledge it's much appreciated. Cheers
This is amzing thanks so much! 🙌
Thank you dear Ross
Thanks or providing access to this! I have gone through your bullet proof course (the old one), currently going through your blues book and also have your funky blues lines lessons. I must say that your courses are perfect for me. Will continue to subscribe to bullet proof guitar for my learning needs. Thanks again for the triads soloing content, now I can try and put things in perspective. I appreciate it!
Glad you’re back, Ross. Great stuff. Still learning from the Blues Book and lessons… might have to get the funky one too. Cheers, fella.
Brilliant. Thanks for the free course.
Great stuff Ross.
Love your videos!! I practiced a lot to memorize all triads and arpegios of all chords of the major scale, but I'm still stuck and don't make any progress... I used to sound like scale practice over a chord progression, and now I sound like arpegio practice over a chord progression😅🥲
Thanks a lot for the free course, Ross. I got your "Beyond pentatonics" book and I think it's fantastic.Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I hope you're doing great in Nashville pursuing your goals. Best regards from toasty Barcelona!
Thank you!
What an interesting perspective, I've never thought about this, thanks man 🙏
So thankful for the free course. Much related. Thank you so much. ❤
Giant steps is such a great track to really build note vocab from the chord changes. When playing “scale” improv, it sounds uninspired but when you light up the main tones from the chords, it changes the whole feel.
Good call - I'll second that. I remember soloing on that one when I was in high school, then pulling it back out years (many!) Later and thinking how much different the song felt.
Thanks for the reply. Glad you came back to it. I can remember playing this sucker in college on bass and the whole diminished cycle never made much musical sense to me until I started breaking it down on guitar, like you, many years later. Ross’s channel has helped me tremendously the last year. Cheers!
I've given up hope of ever playing lead guitar like this (I'm embarrassed to say I've been trying to master Ross's Beyond Pentatonic Blues for a while now....) so I'll be taking advantage of this free course ASAP. Thanks, Ross
Like; subscribed; signed up for free course and looking at the blues course. ty; Chuck in San Diego, CA. Blessings.
Andy Timmons style backing track.... cool....
Thanks for the video... Good instruction.
glad to see you here my man
It's been a while but I'm back!
Ross great to see you back!!! Coming to Nashville at some point, can I get date info on your band or take a private lesson from you? Thanks!
Thank you
Beautiful beautiful video.... thanks from Italy👍
Thank you!
Great explanation. Well done.
Lovely stuff as always Ross! Thanks
Thanks!
Hey Ross, I’m loving the melodic soloing course. The fretboard is starting to make more sense. I’m trying to apply this technique to different backing tracks, but sometimes the chord changes move so fast, I can’t pick out the chord patterns before the next chord change comes along. Perhaps I’m still too much of a newbie. Is it ‘necessary' to land on a root note while soloing so it is clear a chord change has happened?
Excellent video. Scales and chord progressions are interlocked, and you should use both. I've been doing so for almost forty years. This is very common in West African style guitar playing.
i'm definitely an A. workin on becoming a B, great video!! it sounds so much more melodic.
very nice video.
Guitarist B sounds as good as Andy Timmons! Thanks for the offer!
Wow! Many thanks Ross. This course, just like the two that I've bought: Bulletproof Guitar 2 & Beyond Pentatonic Blues, is absolutely brilliant. Your playing is first class and the exercises are really useful. 😎👍
Just one question: what's the name of the backing track? I've looked through Elevated Jam Tracks but can't find it.🤔
Love your course, excellent content, great job. Just a FYI... The seventh triad in a major scale is diminished not m7b5. If you are going to harmonize a major scale with 7th chords, CMaj7, Dm7, Em7, FMaj7, G7, Am7, then Bm7b5 is correct as these are all 7th chords. Although you can mix triads and 7th chords interchangeably, you're mixing apples and oranges in your diagram.
Well spotted! Silly error on my part.
Hello
I find this video very helpull but i got a question.
I know ai should do what ur saying when soloing over chords. But what happens when u solo over riffs?
Is it the same thing or its different?
Good video once again❤
Thank you !
Less words - more showing.
Love your videos! I have been thinking about this exact thing for a few years. While you’re improvising, are you thinking about chord names or their diatonic functions?
I ask this question because when songs go outside diatonic harmony I get so lost so fast.
For example, Am-F7-E7
I know it’s c melodic, and then a harmonic minor, but my whole visualization structure breaks down
Do I need solo app? @tomquayle
jk lol Say there’s a a chord that really doesn’t belong there like an Eb major7 in the key of C major
Are you thinking like: okay it’s a major7 chord built off the #9 ?
or are you just thinking Eb ionian/lydian
Yeah Ross!
Hello sir, I have a specific question.... can you demonstrate a melodic solo with a few fast legato runs in between.
I mean, fast legato runs.
Couldn't get the video to load where it explains how to get the free course. Hoping it wasn't just a trick to get you to buy the other course that's offered.
Full disclosure, the free course is part of a sales funnel but it's not a trick. The login details for the course get sent straight to your email inbox as soon as you sign up!
Thanks for the free course! Gonna take a look at it tonight!
It looks like you're using Jazz III's? Do you use regular Jazz III's for everything, lead and rhythm?
Thanks!
Yup everything. Jazz III max grips
@@RossCampbellGuitarist Excellent. Thank you!
Great lesson! Knowing the chords and playing from the heart with feeling will make a better player.
Btw... is the backing track Electric Gypsy?
It is indeed. Thanks!
Guitarist B is Andy Timmons
so whats the difference between Buckethead and Andy Timmons ?
You nailed it to combine triads with scale tones. I knew the ingredients, but now I am getting a better undestanding to combine them to play a melodic solo - and I just have started the course 🥳 Thank you!!
Hope you enjoy the course!
A minor quibble, Ross. At 4:30, in the list of diatonic triads built on each note of the C major sale, you've included Bm7b5 which is actually a 4 note chord. Shouldn't the triad be Bdim?
Yes it should be. My mistake
i here mateus asato when the guiitarist b are playing
Ok, I can't find details on your fiesta red strat. Care to share them, pickups, model, neck profile, favorite action, pickup height etc. ? Thanks and subbed too! 🎸
Search Ross Campbell custom shop strat on RUclips and you'll find a video I made about it a few years back
@@RossCampbellGuitarist ... Cool, thank you!
Thank you for these videos but unfortunately your videos on the web do not have subtitles 😭😭😭, could you put automatic subtitles??? I need to understand your explanations, here on RUclips there are automatic subtitles
Let me look into this! Should be able to get this sorted out
I bought your book but it didn't really help me. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it helped many guitarists. I'm more a visual learner. You're an amazing guitarist. I'm gonna try your free course. Thanks.
I get it! We all learn differently. Might help to work with the video demonstrations too if you decide to give it another go. This is first and foremost a video course so hopefully this is more to your liking
My jazz teacher told me not to write melodies with my solos -- so there's also a balance here as well.
For sure. That's an important caveat that I missed, You wouldn't get much respect from fellow jazz or blues players if you only ever performed pre-planned solos. Still I think it's good for practicing at home to discover new ideas.
What the hell kind of advice is that to “not write melodies”? Is that not what every guitar solo is? A melody? Over a chord progression?
Parker Fly content FTW!
Just having a look at the course. My initial problem is I can't change your video to full screen on my phone. So I can't see the labels on the individual notes.
Download the Kajabi app and use your login details to access it on mobile. Will provide a smoother experience than watching on mobile browser :)
Plus there are PDF eBook downloads available so that you can take a closer look at the fretboard diagrams.
In defense of scales - I've used them to come to your conclusion.
Forget about acale patterns? Do both, chord tones And scales! Good advice, though
Isn't this basically the same as CAGED system?
What Ross described is the foundation of CAGED. CAGED is just a method to help you identify the chord shapes and triads all over the neck. CAGED is a mnemonic device.
im currently guitarist A and i totally suck.
I used to be there too! Practice the material in this free course and I guarantee it'll help you to escape from that phase a lot quicker.
First step to bicome guitarist B is to quit smoking :)
Show me your cards !!
the entire neck is one little connected scale, the same in every key... try using spreading your phrasing around in the same key...
This approach isn't bad, but I find that outlining the chords in solos can start to sound predictable and repetitive after a while.
I like to mix and match lines where I'm targeting chords with one where I'm more just freely flowing through the scale and using my ear to guide me
“Wrong” notes played prestissimo appear to the ear as part of an over all picture. If you are going to play slower style solos, the money notes are the ones that are chord tones, for sure!
@@onethousandtwonortheast8848 Very well said!
to B or not to B
don't smoke cigs, kids
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Guitarist A could sound as good as B if he slowed down and phrased better tbf...