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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Soloing and Nashville Numbering | | Date: | Monday, March 3, 2008 12:46:37 (-0800) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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Hey, Pat--
it'd be easier to refer to standard notation because that's what
everyone
else uses.. i.e., upper case Major lower case Minor
I ii iii IV V vi vii dim (ordinarily it has a little
circle like the degree symbol)
this is how Music Theory is depicted on most sites we'd go to
On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Pat Walker wrote:
> You can play any of the major scale notes as long as the chord is
> is built
> on that major scale. So play major on the I, IIm, IIIm, IV, V, and
> VIm.
> Sometimes the major scale notes sound a little "square" on the V
> chord - the
> blues pentatonic scale (again built off the I or tonic) can work
> better in
> these situations.
>
> The most common other common chords you will encounter that are not
> in the
> same key as the ones listed above are the II, III, VI, and the
> bVII. There
> are modal formulas that will guide you as to what scale to play on
> these
> chords, but for practical purposes I have just learned what note
> makes the
> chord deviate from the key and make sure that I play that note.
>
> I know your question was based on the key of A, but I tend to
> process my
> dobro theory in terms of G. So for a A chord (II) play a C# instead
> of a C.
> For B (III), play a D# instead of D. For E (VI) play a G# instead
> of G, and
> for F (bVIII), play an F instead of F#.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Pat Walker
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Randy McClure
> <rpmcclure@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Besides the D, F# & A (the IV chord in
>> A major), what other notes can I play in my solo while the tune is at
>> IV? Same question when the song goes to the V chord? At the I chord
>> I assume anything on the A major scale works, right?
>
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