notes to play over chords

[tosh137]

Hi, Suppose I'm on a 12 bar blues rhythm behind me. Say A7, D7, E7

Now I start soloing in the Am pentatonic

Any specific notes I should try playing or bend to during the A7 chord?
during the D7?
during the E7?

thanks a lot.

[rbehr]

Well...

Its always cool to bend up to the note of the chord which is also the root during a solo...So during the a7 chord, I would say try to use some bends up to an A note......And since this is a pentatonic... anything will sound good within the scale...

But you can add some blues notes in there...(I couldnt tell you what they are... i just know how to play them). Try linking some of the notes together chromatically.. youll see what i mean. But for the most part... youll want to start on A (root)and end on A(root)...

Hope this helps.

[WildBill]

I wouldn't try to go to far with the bends until you've got your soloing down pretty good. An expirenced player well most likely tell you that you throwing you timing off when you try to do fancy bends like that. But they are good practise..
Do you know the blues pentotonic scale, it only adds 1 note but it changes the feel of the scale. And as 12bar blues is so redictable try changing Octaves (if your not already) and end on the root but 3 octaves higher or lower,, just have fun with it, bottom line

[wild_axeman]

try bending the 2nd up to the 3rd,the b3rd up to the 3rd,the b7 up to the 1,the 4th up to the 5th

also try hammering on from all of those lower notes to the higher ones

try teetering between the 3rd and 4th like a trill but picked,then going up or down to the root

try a slow hammer from the b3 to the 3 then going up or down to the root (slide into the root if you go up to the root)

try picking the 6th and slowly bending it a 1/4 bend,then pick the b7th then go up to the b3rd and give it a half bend and resolve down to the root

try bending the 9th up to the b3rd

try trilling between any wholesteps and between any halfsteps

try playing the blues scale in a linear fashion on any given string and playing triplets or quadruplets or do some tapping and make sure to exploit the half steps between the b3 and 3,between the 3 and the 4,between the 4 and the b5 and between the b5 and the 5and between the 9 and b3 etc.

Try a tap on and swipe! (slide your right hand finger after you tap on)

Try doing a bend and tap on and then vibrato the tapped note etc.

Try tapping with the side of your pick really fast!

slides,slides,slides

and maybe even try playing slide