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Posted by: Oxac Nov 26 2008, 10:44 PM
Well, I have some trouble writing a good solo over this backingtrack. Any help or tips are appreciated.
It's in A min / A harmonic minor.
The backing is something like: Am|E7 G#dim7|Am|G G7/B|C Cmaj7/E|F G#dim7| (mostly).
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Nov 27 2008, 12:22 AM
You can try combine some patterns and licks from those two scales, if you are familiar with them. If I would need to actually compose a solo on top of it I would play around with scales a bit until I find something interesting and them memorize it and go further. The good thing about minor/harmonic minor is that they differ in only one note and that is VII one.
Posted by: Oxac Nov 27 2008, 12:37 AM
Yes, I know them. But not very familiar with the style and what fits. etc. Btw, what do you guys think of the piano sound? I'm very happy with it. I just found out how to connect my keyboard to my computer 
Posted by: Fsgdjv Nov 27 2008, 12:45 AM
My tip would be to keep it simple, try to make it sound like it was Jan Johansson himself playing it, I don't thinka typical guitar solo can ever fit with that song, take some ideas from his playing maybe. I know it wasn't much help, but keep it simple.
Posted by: Oxac Nov 29 2008, 11:20 AM
Thanks for the Ideas guys. Much appreciated. Any other tip I might find usefull? Any GMC lesson with focus on similar aspects?
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