How many times have you seen an image with these names of the modes?
I bet it’s a lot….
And it’s pretty confusing right?
Well I’ll help you with that.
One of the most common stumbling blocks every aspiring guitarist encounters is knowing how to choose a scale to solo with.
However many of you probably have no idea which scales to use with what chords…….
So I wrote this article to give you a couple of examples that’ll not only explain this process, but also explain a crucial guitar music theory error that you’re probably making every time you play a scale.
Keep reading this article to see what that error is……..
When you’re learning how to do your own guitar solos, you’ve gotta understand that……
There is no right or wrong scale to use with what chords!
Sometimes you can use one scale over an entire chord progression. But most of the time you shouldn’t.
That’s because many chord progressions aren’t written to stay exactly within the key signature of a song.
Nearly all country, rock, blues, and jazz progressions veer out of the confines of key signature and so forth.
But also, there is almost little difference between scales and chords.
You see another problem is that you’ve been trained to see chord shapes and scale patterns, and you probably don’t know how they overlap.
So instead of memorizing tons of rules for which scales work with which, it’s easier to understand how chords and scales are formed.
For instance, you can use these scales to play over the A major chord……
A Major Chord = A – C# – E
D Major/B Minor = D – E – F# – G – A – B – C#
E Major/C# Minor = E – F# – G# – A – B – C#
However you don’t have to even use these scales either.
You can use scales that have just two of those A major notes!
So how do you figure this out on your own?
Well take a close look at these two images of the fretboard I took from all-guitar-chords.com…..

