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What scale/mode for these chords?


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Hey guys, need some advice again.

We've got a fairly upbeat song, and the last part is just

E / D / A / / / (going from E on the 7th fret, down to D on 5th, and then open A)

So it's a fairly powerful ringing chord thing, but I was thinking some cool licks over the long A would be cool, but I always seem to only find "sad" notes and can never get the flashy fast notes.

So what would I play here, mixolydian in A, or E? Some example licks would also help. (I heard the solo from Shine by Collective Soul on the radio this morning, and that's kinda the feel I'm looking for, just over-the-top crazy guitar hero stuff!) :)

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A major scale.

Try to connect chord tones with notes from the scale.

Like over E, you have chord tones E, G#, and B.

You could make little melodic fragments like E-F#-G# or G#-A-B or B-C#-D over the E chord. Connecting the E with the G# or the G# with the B.

Same with the D chord, D-E-F#, F#-G#-A, etc.

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Technically it's an A major progression. But if you think of each chord as it's own scale, like a bunch of modulations, you can come up with some running, crazy sounding things. They'll sound less diatonic that way if you're looking for that. it's really a retrogressed I IV V, hip stuff. I'd make sure to highlight the notes that change from each scale so you can create like some chromatic motion

E major has F# C# G# D#
D Major has F# C#
A major has F# C# G#

G# to G to G# is cool as is the D# to D

you could also take a lydian thing

E Lydian has F# C# G# D# A#
D Lydian has F# C# G#
A Lydian has F# C# G# D#

You could almost carry that A# over to the D, it creats a b13 sound. creates really strong cadense.

Promises Promises (Dionne Warwick, written by Burt Bacharach) has some cool stuff vaguely along these lines

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