How to Solo over Get Lucky

JohnCordy · December 2019

After speaking to a forum member who shall go unnamed until he outs himself - we came up with this as an idea.
Presumably many of you play in function and pub bands, and probably like me you play the same tunes week in and week out. The idea was that I'd do a couple of first take improvised solos - one relatively simple, one not so simple and break down some licks/theory questions that people might have, maybe even tab some of what happened during the solos.

If you've any suggestions for other tunes that this could work for, it'd be great to hear!

fastonebaz · December 2019

Can't believe everyone isn't desperate to shred over this.

JohnCordy · December 2019

I'm sure one or two of you will be playing this over New Years - try some of these ideas!

Modellista · January 2020

Re the "outside" bit at 3:40 in the first video - very tasty, I initially thought that's the minor scale shifted up a semitone, but then perhaps it's a diminished run with the first note a semitone above root?

viz · January 2020

Modellista said:

Re the "outside" bit at 3:40 in the first video - very tasty, I initially thought that's the minor scale shifted up a semitone, but then perhaps it's a diminished run with the first note a semitone above root?

Yes it’s nice that bit Isn’t it? - basically F# maj arpeggio with added G, 2 octaves, without the bottom F#. Or notes 2, 4 6 and 9 of the half-whole symmetrical diminished. sounds really cool. Great playing!

JohnCordy · January 2020

Hey @Modellista that's actually a bit that I explain in the second video if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Here's the logic.

The chord progression starts on Bminor and ends on E major. I'm implying an F# major as a passing chord to get to the B minor. I'm playing a dominant 7b9 arpeggio starting on the b9 - so G. So it's coming from the altered scale side of stuff.

JohnCordy · January 2020

At about the 11 minute mark @Modellista ;

Brad · January 2020

Really fantastic stuff there man!

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