Simple Chord Tone Soloing with the CAGED Chords
Today, we will be exploring melodic soloing using only Chord Tones and the CAGED Chording System.
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Chord-tone soloing in guitar helps any song become better and have quality harmony when playing. To achieve this goal of chord-tone soloing, this type requires both skills and practice.
In this episode, Steve Stine will play using chord-tone soloing and he will highlight the beauty of focusing on melody rather than just playing through scale. He will also help guitar players to know some of the best things to use in practicing the guitar such as timing, phrasing, and even playing in triads and caged chords to create melodic music. He will also focus on the importance of a goal when playing the guitar. Listen to this podcast for more guitar tricks and lessons!
Highlights:
- Focusing more on melody than just playing through the scale
- Chord tone soloing/ importance of playing chord tone soloing
- Limiting to only playing the notes of a chord
- Focusing on melody, phrase, and rhythm
- Playing E major pentatonic
- Playing plain triads
- Timing and phrasing over E chord
- Using caged chords, 7 9 10 9 to create a melody
- Using triads or the three-note chords
- Visualizing F sharp minor
- Fewer notes and more phrasing
- Giving your solo a purpose by trying to go to the right notes
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