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Is there a guitar course not based on piano?????


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Your post makes no sense to me. First, I've never seen a DVD or video, of which I have dozens, use the piano to teach or explain.

Second, most everything on here and the net is trying to tell us "where to go instinctively to solo over any progression without the fear of sounding awful."

Third, the keyboard and you playing the same notes but tripping over each other???? People playing different instruments, using the same chords and progressions, and sounding good together, is what jazz, rock, and blues has always been about.

Maybe you're not tuned to the keyboard?

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What i mean is, if a play a C chord (C,E,G) the keyboard will play the same notes, but in jazz for example there are other types of C chords (add7, add9) that can complement the piece of music being played w/o the guitar sounding EXACTLY the same as the keyboard. I

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Originally posted by edcancel2

What i mean is, if a play a C chord (C,E,G) the keyboard will play the same notes, but in jazz for example there are other types of C chords (add7, add9) that can complement the piece of music being played w/o the guitar sounding EXACTLY the same as the keyboard. I

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He's right. There's no way around it. You say that you want to be able to really solo over a progression. That means you need to put in the footwork learning chord/scale relationships of the progression(s). I'd start with Major (also Lydian), Minor (dorian), and Dominant (Mixolydian). These three chord (scale) types will take you far. To get this knowledge to be instinctive, you need to be a musical genious, or put in enough hard work to make this stuff thoughless (second nature).

 

Also, you won't get beautiful melodies by running scales up and down. You have to really internalize these sounds/sets of notes so that you are able to create melodies utilizing the notes contained in the scales (chords). Then you have to learn to link the melodies together...

 

You're asking a big question. The only small answer is to study vcery hard. You'll need a lot more than just the minor pentatonic scale to accomplish what you're looking for. (Then again, SRV made a complete career out of the minor pentatonic scale, so what do I know?!?)

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