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Hey everyone!
I’ve been a Premium Member for about 6 months now, and have learned so much. My main goal has been to improve in a jam-setting. Primarily, I play with a country/folk church band, playing country versions of classic hymns.
Active Melody has helped me greatly navigate around through different positions of a scale, and expand my lick vocabulary. But the thing I really feel so stuck on, still, is following the chord changes when playing lead. I can isolate the chord tones, and that works okay. But when I watch Brian (EP412 as an example) pop back and forth between chords, it feels overwhelming to do that on my own. When I turn on the backing track, my brain has a hard time shifting quickly enough without any planning ahead of time, and then the chord has passed. On top of that, I struggle with remembering on the fly what interval in the scale each chord is. I’m thinking “D, then G”, not “I then IV”. Should I be? I get it conceptually, but can’t improv like that (yet).
Do you have any advice, or lessons, that are a helpful anchor or shortcut to navigate between chords more smoothly?
Thanks so much!
– Philip
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