Writing a Solo - Strong Notes Lesson

Writing a Solo - Strong Notes

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  • Hello GMC and welcome to my Writing a Solo serial!! :)

    In this serial I'll try to give you some tips and hints you should eventually think of when composing or improvising a solo. Both composing and improvising are actualy moments when you're writing a pice of music, only difference is with improvising when you do it "in a walk" way.
    In this very lesson we will work on "Strong Notes" topic. Those are notes that you set as important and you do everything to serve them well! Here we have key of F major and chord
    progression is F, Gm, Am, Bb, C, Dm, Bb, C and F. What I did here is that I took 3rd of each chord and signed it as a strong note so we have these strong notes : A, Bb, C, D, E, F, D, E and A.
    You'll notice that I'm doing a lot around every strong note but at the end you'll still memorize those notes the best. Scale we'll be using is a pure F major scale, tempo is 75 bpm and I used Guitar Rig 3, will post a patch for you latter on.

    Have fun and see you soon! :)

    Muris Varajic
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