How to Harmonize Your Lead Guitar Solos
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Lead guitar solos don't always have to involve single note runs. By using a technique known as double stops, you can create beautiful harmonies that flow naturally over the chord changes.
In this lesson I show you how to pull these two-note harmonies from scales and turning them into phrases, both over a single chord and chord changes.
On the lesson page you can find practice tracks and tabs showing you how to harmonize different scales, so be sure to head over and get the complete lesson...
More here: www.fretjam.co...
I know this theory, but I was looking around to see how it's explained in video and OH MY GOD, I've watched a dozen lessons and you are thus far the only one who had the idea of showing a diagram of a fretboard.
Without a diagram this is a much harder to grasp when just learning, but actually showing it on a fretboard like this makes this instantly understandable.
A key locks you into certain notes on the fretboard and the type of harmony tells you how far apart played notes should be. So in a 3rd you'll always move 3 or 4 frets for example.
i have never found a more detailed explanation of guitar theory and technique in the internet such as Fretjam...you rule
quite simply, you are the god of guitar lessons. A disciplined, structured lesson set every time. gives me confidence and motivation to discover more of this wonderful instrument. Rock on! \_/
+Martin Chandler Thank you for your time and appreciation Martin!
You are in Justinguitar tier!!!
I love how every video you post is something I'm currently learning or have heard of and want to learn. Thanks again.
Haha. This is all for you Alex. Enjoy :)
fretjam.com I was wondering if you have any diagrams showing more two note harmonized chords/dyads, although this time with with the two notes being 2 strings apart instead of just one or the next string up or down.
Your videos made me realize the difference between playing a lick/solo and being a lead guitarist
This is the most boring guitar lesson on TH-cam, yet the most effective lesson I've ever learned. Thank you.
this stuff is amazing using a loop pedal. thank you for the insight friend
exactly what i was thinking
This is about where I think I am in learning. Intervals ,dyads,triads,scales,shapes. 134, 124 fingerings. I fall in love everyday with guitar.
Thanks FJ for this lesson, please continue loading more lessons
After watching this video, I realized how little I know about harmony, this is good, gonna have to study this video several times, ty!
Brilliant and simple, makes working out harmonies a breeze... Thank you!
Fret Jam is my favorite guitar instructional channel. I always learn something really useful whenever I watch one of these videos. Thank you guys for making such great content.
I love your lessons, so much useful information unlike many on TH-cam.
this channel deserves more subscribers
edit : way more
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I must agree,your lessons are so good.Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Fretjam has helped change the way I play 🙂
Just Fantastic lesson.
Thank you so much.
it would be great to see videos on how scales relate to chord movements...any sugestions? any video on the topic from fretjam?
This is an amazing lesson, fits in perfectly with your 6ths video
A great lesson expertly delivered. Thank you.
Fretjam is the best !
Awesome teaching hats off
it was amazhing I learn the sample that using A maj and D maj, please upload the other lesson like this, I love it :)
Fantastic lesson! Thank you 👍🏽👍🏽🙏🏽
nice great job!!this opens alot..interesting how harmonization change anything
Lmfao... No matter how many variations.. I still hear "Boys don't cry" by The Cure
thank you
this helped a lot
Im so much better after your lessons....More important, it makes sense to me.
I wrote this song just keeping it simple...Just hit arpeggios or try to find them.
That's how I got the melody.lmao Im going to have to write a song using this lesson. :-p
It sounds totally kick butt...
Alter2, A minor, Instrumental guitar, guitar rig 5
This song's is just me messing around trying find arpeggios or the root note... 5 mins after one of your lessons.lmao
Decrush, Instrumental guitars, E major, Guitar Rigs 5
Hey kim, I just listened to your A minor instrumental and I really enjoyed it. Nice melodic ideas with some awesome runs. You've found the "secret" of melodic playing - targeting those chord/arpeggio tones!
Mate, your lessons are amazing. I have been teaching beginners for a number of years and your lessons are proving an invaluable resource. Thanks so much for your hard work.
Hotel California is a pretty good example of guitar harmonies.
That was beautiful... Thank you so much.
Excellent lesson by far one of the best tutorials on guitar and music theory thanks for sharing. Can you advise on how to access the lesson page?
At last. Theory I can understand. Thank you.
That was beautiful
Man you are a complete Mesiah
This is so helpful
Your videos are brilliant, man. I have improved a lot since I've started watching them =)
Very helpful!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much, man. Thank you.
Woah, this popped up on auto play and I think it was a huge missing piece. Great video and examples!
thanks for the inspiration.
Very helpful. thank you!!
This is a great lesson! I did get confused when moving to 4ths. The first chord is A flat and D Flat. Where did A Flat come from? I understand D being the fourth but does that mean you can add any note from the scale to a 4th note and be considered a 4th chord? If someone could explain this I will be very grateful!! I’m missing something.
So when you’re changing from the Amaj to Bmin and how your choosing your harmonies, are you changing the scale to Bmin or would you be harmonizing using the 2nd mode of the major scale(Dorian)?
Why is the fret scale upside down and backwards just asking
Great as always ! thx
Thank you so much
Hi man.
Can you do a lesson on how to get the chords from melodic minor in to a regular chord progression. I never make it work. And i have a hard time finding a place to use augmented chords (and all the other chords, hehe ).
Thanks for your lessons.They are great help. You are the best teatcher
You're welcome Luke. I plan on doing a lesson on augmented chords and will surely do something on melodic minor.
Melodic minor is often used as an alternative to Dorian in ii V movements (play melodic minor on the ii chord root - e.g. over Am / D7, A melodic minor would work its magic).
It's also a nice alternative to harmonic minor on movements between the i and V chords in a minor key (e.g. over Am / E7, A melodic minor would work nicely).
So it's the i, IV and V chords of melodic minor that are most usable. The other chords, such as the augmented III of the scale, don't sound as "natural" when used in minor keys. A lot of scales and modes are best used over two and three chord movements. It's only the major scale (Ionian) and natural minor (Aeolian) that can sit naturally over four, five, six of their chords in a musical sequence.
Hope this gives you something to try out it the meantime!
fretjam.com Thank you again!
This will keep me busy until next video.
Cheers!
Thanks
Who's watching with me in 2020, this is really sweet guys,
Awesome channel!
thanks for guiding to the music heaven :)
Thanks for the lesson. I have just discovered the beauty in harmonizing with 3rds and 6ths and this was exactly the explanation I needed to help me. Do you ever do SKYPE lessons?
I don't do Skype at the moment (I never say never!), sorry. But I'm already planning a lesson on harmonizing 6ths. They are so beautiful and been lost in them for hours today. Definitely needs to be revisited.
muy bueno, muchas gracias!!!
love the 6th's, very bluesy
Steve Cropper loved them too lol
Hi, can someone please explain what the numbers at 6:07 mean or how they're played on which fret, or if there is a video that explains that? I don't understand it.
great lesson,but can U show the fingering for the licks ?
5:38 onwards needs to be broken down better. What are the relationships between the diads being played? I’m completely lost from that point on.
Can you stay in A maj scale with your leads over all the chords in that progression ?
tks - nice!
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i have a q for harmonizing different scales, on the lesson page, for harmonizing C maj on the first part u are harmonizing the scale in relation the next root of the scale to the tone that defines its flavor maj or min as it just so happens to be what im bring up here but obviously thats not the case for the rest of the intervals. so when we arre saying that we are harmonizing in 4ths,5ths,6th etc. is it the interval relationship between the next note in the scale that we use cuz i see that in the mixolydian harmonization u add the mixolydian note after the 5th degree in the mode. this might be worded weirdly but im finding it difficult to explain what im trying to convey. its just kinda mind fucking me about interval harmonization with these other scales but not too much cuz i see that its still about interval movement?
good lesson thank you:)
what's mean by in 3rd & 4rd &5rd?? i don't know. somebody tell me pls~ :)
+Benny Chan These are intervals. The distance between notes. So if we are harmonizing in 3rds, for example, we would count 3 notes in the scale from (and including) our 'starting note' to get the 3rd.
1-3 in the scale = a 3rd.
2-4 = a 3rd.
3-5 = a 3rd.
etc.
A basic major and minor chord is made up 3 notes, the root, the third and the 5th. If the 3rd is flatted then the chord is a minor chord. If not then it s a major chord. When you hear the word triad this is what they're talking about. For example an 'A' major chord is made up of A(root), C#(3rd), E(5th) sooooo an 'A' minor chord would be A(root), C(flatted 3rd),E(5th). The order that the notes are played in doesn't matter R,3,5 or 3,R,5 or 5,R,3 and all these versions of the chord are called 'inversions' .
If you play the notes in a major scale , say the 'C' that has no sharps or flats, then you'd have
C(root of C) D(2nd of C) E(3rd of C) F(4th of C) G(5th of C) A(6th of C) B(maj7th of C) and C(root) .
You can sound out those notes as chords too
Just play C Dm , Em , F, G, Am, Bdim, C
Finally , if you look at the fret spacings(aka intervals) between each note in C you notice the following
C(root) to D 2 frets
D(2nd) to E 2 frets
E(3rd) to F 1 fret
F(4th) to G 2 frets
G(5th) to A 2 frets
A(6th) to B 2 frets
B(maj7th) to C 1 fret
One last thing. In rock music you use the Natural 7th instead of the maj7th. The natural seventh is a flatted maj7th.
Test time.
What are the notes in a Cmaj7th chord? R + 3 + 5 + maj7th or C + E + G + B Voila!
What are the notes in a C7th chord? R + 3 + 5 + 7 or C + E +G + Bb Voila!
now Seventh chords are blues chords and as such when you play the blues you'll limit the notes in a major chord or seventh chord to just 3 notes and you do this by dropping the 5th for the seventh chords. This make the the seventh chords sound bluesy otherwise they sound jazzy.
Ok I could go on forever on this stuff but this is the beginning and should give you enough ammo to figure the next steps.
ZFlyingVLover This was an excellent description thanks.
The Cure!!
Sounds nice. Is there a method to learn or "sense" the 2 strings to use to harmonize a chord? Like in your track above, Amaj has 9-9,7-7,5-6. The Dmaj has 9-9,10-9,7-7,9-9,7-7. Then back to Amaj, you have 6-6,9-9,9-7, 5-6,7-9,6-7,7-6. It would seem impossible to memorize this - or is this the only way? Is there a way to look at the keyboard and know what strings to use based on their relationship to each other. Like that 1st 9-9(string 6 and 4) for the Amaj chord is an E to C#/Db which a maj 6th(41/2 steps). The next dyad is 7-7(string 6 and 4) which is also a maj 6th. I am trying to figure out if there is some method to use to ease the burden on my brain.
Amaj and Dmaj are both part of the A major scale, so the harmony for both these chords will be built around the same pattern. Most progressions you'll hear will be contained within one "parent scale" like this. So that takes a lot of the thinking out of it. As you move your harmony through the scale, it will fall into place.
Just start one of your harmonizing strings on a related chord tone and go from there. So when A major changes to D major, one of my harmonizing notes will start on the root, 3rd or 5th of D major, but continue within the parent A major scale pattern.
What will really help you to visualise chord tones is to think about where you would play the chord shape and merge that with the parent scale pattern of the key. So when Amaj (I) moves to Dmaj (IV), I might visualise the "A form" barre chord of D major at the 5th fret and start my A major scale harmony around that position.
Spend time working on condensing the seven chords of a given scale into a pattern like this (I still need to upload lessons on this concept). Once you can visualise the natural chords of a scale within its pattern, it's a lot easier to work out where to start harmonizations for a given chord.
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Thanks ... Great job here ... Let me read this over a few times and try your suggestions. Thanks again ...
that c# note on 6th fret d string how is that a fourth in a major? i mean i have no idea whats going on. are you using random notes in the scale and just playing the 4th of that note in accordance to the scale? just showing its a 3rd 4th or 5th doesn't help. a bit more explanation would be useful.
Cool.
IF U CAN MAKE A VIDEO ON LEAD TIMING
Sounds too happy for me
Outstanding lesson. TY.