Awesome rock solos that switch between major and minor

MikkiMcMurderer

Like Badge by Cream, I love that...

Any tips on when to make the major/minor  transition over the chord progressions for maximum effect?

mudslide73

MikkiMcMurderer said:

Like Badge by Cream, I love that...

Any tips on when to make the major/minor  transition over the chord progressions for maximum effect?

That was the first one that came to mind when I read the thread title. My whole style is based on that one solo.. it's magnificent imo.

Cols

Black Dog.  Jimmy Page absolutely revelled in flicking from major to minor and back again.

HAL9000

MikkiMcMurderer said:

Any tips on when to make the major/minor  transition over the chord progressions for maximum effect?

For blues it's reasonably common to play major pentatonic over the I chord and minor over the IV and V chords.

skullfunkerry

Funnily enough I've had to learn a song for a thing my friend is doing that has solos (originally played by Zal Cleminson, no less) in a major feel, which is something I'm quite unfamiliar with. Last night I found a "dirty blues shuffle in E" backing track on YouTube which I spent about 20 minutes soloing over, switching between major and minor. Was quite interesting, and I felt like it made my playing more interesting too... there were definitely some parts that worked better than others though, so I need to practise it more to figure out what does and doesn't sound good

HAL9000

Clapton's Eyesight to the Blind - the 'Tommy' version - switches quite freely between major and minor.

allen

SRV does it a surprising amount. Solo on 'Lenny' is a good example.

Moltisanti

Angus Young is ace at this too, listen to you shook me all night long solo

Cirrus

The Edge's Solo in "The Fly" does it.

rico

The Darkness, I believe in a thing called love

viz

Delilah
Red Carpet Massacre
Rio

Lodious

So this is Love by Van Halen (i think that starts major?) Anyways, it's a chuffing good solo.

imalrightjack

Moltisanti said:

Angus Young is ace at this too, listen to you shook me all night long solo

Yeah, Angus is a great reference point here. I might be wrong but I think he uses the relative minor shapes more than major.

Kebabkid

Brian Robertson did this a lot in Thin Lizzy. Just listen to Live and Dangerous and he's on the left channel.

danny_777

Joe Bonamassa - Had To Cry Today. 

menamestom

Hotel California 

nickp

crossroads (cream) - starts in major and then switches to minor etc

downbytheriver

Clapton does it all the time but my favourite example is Peter Green on Need Your Love So Bad - he does it because the whole song changes to major then back again.