Gospel Blues Solo Transcription
Added 2021-04-05 22:24:23 +0000 UTCHere's the tab and notation for my latest Instagram/Youtube post. The full video is on youtube.com/jackruch if you'd like to start/stop and slow down the video to play along. I'll post the backing track as well. Lots of good stuff in this solo. Some altered dominant lines, some '2-5-1' lines and lots of blues! I'll have some video lessons up soon explaing some of these concepts. Enjoy!
Comments
Yep, finally, i'm here! love your playing and feeling to the music. cheers! \m/
Hendry Wong
2021-10-09 14:54:17 +0000 UTCI'm using a few different scales and a lot of arpeggios throughout this solo. There's quite a few different, non-diatonic, chord changes in the piece so you can't really stick with one scale throughout the whole chord progression.
Jack Ruch
2021-06-08 19:50:26 +0000 UTCOver that G# 7 chord I am playing the G# altered. Then resolving to the C# minor chord. This works because G# 7 is functioning as the dominant 5 chord of C# minor.
Jack Ruch
2021-06-08 19:48:00 +0000 UTCHey Jack. Such a beautiful piece. Iβm really buckling down to try and learn this but Iβm still fairly new to guitar. So do all these notes fit in one particular scale or do you play different scales during this song?
Jared
2021-04-12 04:19:42 +0000 UTCAt the end of Bar I, are you outlining a G#7#5? Is that how you are thinking about the B#? (As the 3rd of the G#7 chord? Thanks so much!
David Riddle Watson
2021-04-10 22:45:09 +0000 UTCSo, I just tried to learn the solo, kinda got the first round of it.. .but yea. what a beautiful piece, and man when you hit that run in Dmin first time around, WOW! how did you come up with that, i mean i kinda understand the arpeggio things but wow!
Romong Lepcha
2021-04-08 17:04:49 +0000 UTCGot it, thank you!
Dan Noceti
2021-04-08 01:41:40 +0000 UTCI'm thinking about a Dmaj7 arpeggio over the B min chord. Which gives you a minor 9 sound. Then an E9 arpeggio over the E chord. Since its a 2-5-1 going to the A chord I would treat the E as a dominant chord.
Jack Ruch
2021-04-07 20:52:33 +0000 UTCI think there is an outline of an E9 arpeggio (G#-B-D-F#-E-D or 3-5-b7-9-1-b7) before going into chromatics from B to C (5th and 6th of E). Since I think it is just a E triad chord being played not Emaj7 chord you can play E dominant 7th lines over it - making it a 5 chord that moves you through to the A in the next bar. Which would make the Bm-E-A in bars 4 to 5 a standard 2-5-1 progression. I may be reading too much into it, been staring at this trying to figure it out so I stand a chance of playing something half as good.
James Holder
2021-04-07 19:02:51 +0000 UTCCan anyone help me understand whatβs happening in bar 4, specifically over Emaj? I see that the 3rd of E was targeted at the change to Emaj but the entire bar seems to stay in Bminor with some chromatic passing notes. Is that correct?
Dan Noceti
2021-04-07 15:41:12 +0000 UTCThis is great, man! And thanks for putting the chords on the sheet music...that context is key for me to understand what's happening with the lines.
Charlie Pabst
2021-04-06 16:34:28 +0000 UTCYes I posted it right after this post!
Jack Ruch
2021-04-06 13:39:15 +0000 UTCOk cool. Im still figuring out settings on Youtube. I'll make sure to set that up for future videos.
Jack Ruch
2021-04-06 13:38:36 +0000 UTCYES! I would love to 'ring the bell' so that I see your new videos as they are released!
David Allman
2021-04-06 00:50:11 +0000 UTCMe again ππΎ Is there a backing track for this at all? π
Ben Slater
2021-04-05 23:37:41 +0000 UTCJust a quick note that it looks like because the video is set to be suitable for children on YouTube I canβt save it to a playlist...may need to change that video setting?
Ben Slater
2021-04-05 22:32:40 +0000 UTCGlorious. Thanks Jack. Love your runs man, silky smooth.
Ben Slater
2021-04-05 22:30:21 +0000 UTC
