Chords for Paul Gilbert Guest Lesson - Soloing over jazz chords (TG236)

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_ _ _ Can you play us some of the riffs off the new record and explain to us some of the [C] ideas
and the thought processes that went into singing Favourite?
Oh, let's see.
Well, it was funny because when we did the record, _ _ basically the only rehearsal we did
was the day _ that we would record the song.
I would pretty much write the song on Monday, _ _ send the demo to the band at about _ 11 o'clock
at night on Monday, _ you know, that everybody would wake up in the morning and listen to
the demo once.
We'd come to my studio, _ [E] run through it a few times and record it and then, _ you know, I
don't know what remains in here.
But maybe the main, _ one of the main things that I had fun with was, _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ really my introduction
into playing over changes is through blues. _ _
And [A] with the pentatonic scale, _ _ _ it's really easy if you've got a decent ear to sort of
just bend and guess and hope _ and _ it'll be all right.
You know, you don't really, you can _ play over the one chord [D] and just bend the third a little [C#m] bit.
_ _ _ _ I've already put it in different things though.
I threw in the _ _ [B] _ _
[Am] major kind of sixth. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ But then over the [Am] four, we need a different note like_ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ That sounds nice.
_ [E] So there's all this little stuff, but I finally methodically figured out what to do in these things.
And it really helped me with one of the songs, which is a song called [B] Enemies in Jail.
And the main solo in that is just two chords, but they're way more complicated chords than
I've ever attempted in my life.
One is an A dominant 13.
[F#] _ _ _ And the other, _ this is really easy to [C#] play.
All you have to do is take your hand _ [D] and move it up a half step and change the [C] bass note
to [G#] E. _
And that [D] is _ an E7 [G#m] _ _ sharp 9 flat [G] 13.
_ _ [A] But it just, _ [F#m] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [G#] what time signature is that?
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One.
[G] _ _ It's like [D] 3-4, or [G#] it doesn't _ _ feel like 3-4.
_ _ [Am] One, two, maybe 6-8.
[C#] _
I'm terrible with time signatures.
It's this.
One, two, [A] three, four.
_ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] Each [C#] bar is cut off.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ So I [C#] have to play a different _ scale _ [C#m] over each of those.
_ And the first thing that's easy is to sort of copy the [Dm] chord.
[C#] You know, because all you have to do is move it up and down a half step.
So I did one lick.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] Yeah, that was it, where I picked.
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_ [C#] _ _ _ So [G] basically just bending.
_ _ [F#m] You know, those in there.
[F#] _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [G] Or, oh, there it is.
_ So I'm playing those two notes.
_ And [D] then going up a half step.
_ _ And then bending [G] it.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ Let's see, I can't play the [A] rhythm and the solo at the same time, but _ [G] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
that was a lot
of fun because _ even though it's [D] two radically different chords, it's easy to play together.
But the main thing I'll show you is, _ _ and this is sort of the blues trick too, is just playing
over that 7th [F#] chord. _ _ _ _ _
Is to [C#] actually think of _ _ the major mode of [A] blues.
So instead of doing [E] minor, _ _ _ _ I'll do _ _ [C#m] that _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ sort of thing.
A lot [C] of the [D] minor, like that _ leading tone, or whatever it's called, going into the major third.
_ _ [C] Real common thing.
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_ [C#m] That [E] happens all the time.
But to be really [C#m] aware and try to [D] make that happen.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] But I don't have much time to do that because there's only one, [G] two, three, four, [G#] five,
six, six quick beats and then I'm on to the next chord. _
So the next chord is the cool part.
I came up with a bunch of stuff for that.
The first thing I'm going to show you [D] is a tune up for string.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ _ _ And it's basically all the notes _ in this [D] chord, just put, _ _ _ [D#] what's the word, _ back to back.
Or [E] in order. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
And I love that sound.
That's so cool.
Now, the one way you can remember what the notes are is if you take A [C] minor pentatonic _ _ _
[Am] _ _ and take [C#m] all the A's, toss them in the garbage, [D] and replace them with [G#] G sharps. _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C] _ _ Sounds [G#] perfect over that.
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_ [G#] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And all I did was write those notes all over the fretboard on neck paper and picked out
the easiest [G] looking shape.
And that's this one. _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
So that's one.
Now let's see, to actually use that in real life, _ [B] I'd have to do like my major A, like _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
quickly go back and forth.
All right, I'm going to give you one more.
Super easy because really all this is is five notes. _
[G] And these are the five.
[G#] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And so you have two notes [D] in a string and three notes in a string.
_ _ _ And you can do that in octaves.
So I start on the [G] G, _ _ _ or the G here.
_ [D] _ And you [E] got a big [G] long _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ E _ dominant sharp 9 flat 13 arpeggio. _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ With a really wide range.
It goes all the way between those two notes.
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So I got to practice that before the tour.
But _ _ _ _ that's just mind blowing stuff to me.
I _ _ _ _ have so much fun practicing guitar now because I'm not just doing the same old.
I love Ted Nugent.
I love Stranglehold.
But _ damn, I'm 45 years old now.
I got to find some other stuff to play. _ _ _
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