If you're talking about just playing A minor pentatonic, that's the wrong scale for the E7 chord. The A minor pentatonic has a minor seventh, but the E7 chord's major 3rd is the major 7th of the A scale... so you either want to use A harmonic minor or use the minor 7th (G) over the A chord and the major 7th (G#) over the E7 chord. Maybe that's what the neighbors are trying to communicate by banging on the wall.
Love this! I only recently started practicing improv, following chord tones is really hard. With only two chords, at a moderately fast pace this is just what I needed though. I played over this in A Natural minor (over Am) and A Harmonic minor (over E7). Very easy scale change, too, since it's just the 7th being raised
Literally just learnt a few chords and after the Pentatonic lesson in the other vid.....I'm feeling like a rockstar.... thanks man....I'm encouraged to continue learning
This is fun. You can play Am stuff over Am (pentatonic or whatevs) and over the E7 you can play E harmonic major (b6 and b7). If you play the G in the Am chord and move it to G# for the E7 it sounds nice. I'm not a professional, just a noodler!
When you're playing "in a key" which is like 99.9% of western music, that means you've chosen a particular scale to build your chords. The (I) chord is the chord based on the 1st note of the scale and the (V) is based on the 5th note of the scale. I teach this stuff on my Patreon! Check it out!
Im a bit confused by those roman numerals from I to V. First I though its the scale patern number but from google images it didnt seem like it. So if I got this right, I is G shape, IV is C shape V is D shape etc. ? And if there is a jam track like this one, i must switch those chord shapes whenever the number changes in the video ? I just learned pentatonic scale + connecting those shapes together. So this is really confusing. Its basically a lot of informations.
Hi! So, there is music theory that applies to all instruments, and then there is guitar-specific language about how to apply that theory. The Roman Numerals refer to chords in the key of A Minor - "i" is the 1st chord in the key, with A as the root note. It's an A Minor chord. "V" is the chord based on the fifth note of the scale, E.
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I m using am penta for I and em penta for V. I will stay with this scales untill i can make sense of them across the fretboard You can leave at comments different ideas that sound well. Already people talk about em harmonic because of the of the 7 on e. Let's do some practice.
Try "A Harmonic Minor" on the E chord, because it is found in that key. The scale looks like: A B C D E F G# A But emphasize the E, G#, and B in your solos (only over the E chord) and it'll sound nice!
Those are the Roman numerals for the chords of the scale: 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 become: I, II, III, IV, V. Now, the convention is to write the minor chords in small Roman numeral and the major chords in capital. Here the jam track is a chord progression of the first and the fifth chords of the A minor scale. So all together you can summarise it as: "Am i-V Jam track." Hope that helps :)
Although your backing track has sick groove, your heading is misleading. In a minor scale, i, iv, v are all minor! So Am, Em are diatonic chords of Am scale. I was searching Am backing track to practice my soloing, and this threw me off.
All goods! I completely understand, thanks anyway. I just love this melody that you've created! Not to mention how easy it is to solo using the A minor scale.
Love going back and forth to the relative minor and major scale during a jam track. that three fret rule works in both directions in most cases. throw in major and minor scales using single strings and you are all over the fretboard.
@@burnhamny what does that mean if you could explain please? Because what i thought was that all the notes in the c major and a minor are the same so why wouldn't the c major scale work perfectly fine with no problems to an a minor jam?
