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Slow, Melodic Lead Guitar Lesson – Learn About Soloing With a Relative Minor Chord – EP269

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a VERY slow, and melodic lead over a basic chord progression. I’ll explain what a relative minor is and how you can use the same scale to solo over a relative minor and it’s relative major. This lead is made up of both blues and country style licks.

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  3. sunburst says

    sustain! ..yes. like your explanation agree play around with both the guitar and amp settings..I just try listening to you settings first but know you are busy teaching lol.. good lesson and thanks Brian!

  5. JoLa says

    So amazing and beautiful! Love the talk about the tone, great lesson on some theory, too – but the w a y y o u p l a y i t, OMG! A bend and a half, oh dear… Brian, you are absolutely amazing, thank you for giving us all this love and I just hope you are getting it back, too! 💜😉

  8. Rich F says

    Thanks Brian for such a beautiful lesson: love it! Watching it in bed with my Saturday morning cup of tea, and it is inspiring me to cut short my lie-in and get up and grab my guitar!

    I love the backing chords and rhythm, which I am going to try to play, in addition to the lead. Just a quick question: I am trying to get my head around 6/8 time versus 6/4 time (which both seem to have a waltz feel to them?). In this lesson, you say that this is 6/4 time. In lesson EP256, you say that it is 6/8 time, but count it the same? 123456, 223456… can you help ease my confusion? I remember reading somewhere once what the top and bottom numbers mean….

    Thanks again for consistently opening up new vistas on the guitar!

    Cheers,

    Rich F

  12. sunburst says

    I was just practicing this is terrific lesson ,I hear the David and see the Gilmour licks..very cool especially a favorite! will look back at EP130 too as you suggested! Thumbs ups on youtube!

  14. Tim M says

    Love this lesson. I subscribed after seeing this one on YouTube. Thanks so much. So much emotion in the playing. Just a suggestion…maybe make the videos with the ability to Chromecast? I like to watch the YouTube lessons on my TV and would love to do the same with the members area content. Thanks

    • Alvin B says

      Hi, just thought I’d offer a little help on your suggestion for ActiveMelody videos that could be Chromecast.

      What you’re wanting….is an automatic aspect that already happens whenever you attempt to Chromecast to an Internet connected SmartTV. So you can still send and watch ActiveMelody videos on your TV if you are already watching Youtube videos in this manner.

      Just ‘right click’ the video and click Cast in the list of actions that appear. Then hit the video expand button from your video on your desktop or Laptop computer and it will appear full screen on your TV. That’s it! I have double checked this to ensure I am not guiding you in the wrong path. It will work. Try it. Best of luck! Alvin B

  16. JohnStrat says

    Brian,

    This is a very instructive lesson and should not to be missed out in my view. The technique and information parted are vital to a serious player who wants to improve.

    Thank you

    JohnStrat

  18. drlknstein says

    good lesson… … nice and slow (like me)

    and very nice chord progression- took it and juiced it up with some loud overdrive and faster..sounds great..good fun

    and a touch of knopfler is always worth the price of admission

  28. Jeff F says

    Thanks for the slow lesson- especially with the bends. I haven’t worked on bending much but it makes it easier to learn when I’m not as focused as keeping up with the tempo. I do appreciate the option in all your videos of being able to adjust the tempo for practicing- that has helped tremendously. Best of all is explaining the theory of what you are doing. Thanks Brian!!!

  29. Avinash P says

    Thank you Brian for another amazing lesson! I like to learn and play in slow paste first and get the tempo and little bends and slides right with timing. Also counting the beat and using your metronome is very helpful. Another very helpful input is, when I am playing on my guitar is the amp and sound setting info about how you do it. As a beginner the sound setting gets sometimes to overwhelming for me and I end up playing in “clean” with little old time tremolo addings.
    Thank you so much. You have great lessons.

    Avinash

    PS.: Keep yourself safe from all these Hurricanes/Tornados coming up.

  30. DABEE says

    In every lesson, there are so many take-aways. After returning to this lesson to go over the song, I caught something I missed before. Brian explained about sustain, using the amp guitar and overdrive. It truly is a blessing to have Brian as our guide. Thanks Brian!

  31. DABEE says

    In every lesson, there are so many take-aways. After returning to this lesson to go over the song, I caught something I missed before. Brian explained about sustain, using the amp guitar and overdrive. It truly is a blessing to have Brian as our guide. Thanks for this one Brian!

  35. JB says

    As a musician for over 30 years. To this younger generation. You folks just don’t realize what a blessing it is to have these online teachers. It was very hard to find this stuff in the 90’s. I still have a lot of tapes, dvd’s and books that I go back to from time to time. The younger generation is like, books! Yea right. I count my blessing all the time when I can get vids like this. Just wish I had more time. But any musician, you have to make time. If you dont get it at first. Keep at it. Muscle memory is the key.

  36. Rich F says

    Hi all!

    Just re-visiting this beautiful slow blues/country lesson after a couple of years, with a view to re-learning it and psting it soon! I notice that I commented on August 11th 2018.,, still love this lesson! The rhythm (6/4 time)… the melody, the moves, the complete awesome feel of it…. and I love the relative major relative minor thing!

    Billy R: you asked about how to work a relative minor chord into a major chord progression… don’t know if that was ever answered for you… I find these charts useful…

    major chord progression chart

    minor chord progression chart

    So yiu can see there where the chords come from in C major/A minor for this lesson…

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