First post, so just going to write random unstructured things for now. Maybe more structured content later. These would normally be private notes but I'm publishing them in order to be less cowardly, even though no one will probably read them.
This one is music related.
Practicing guitar soloing for a track for my band, Delusions of Grandeur (Jason Bossio gets most of the writing credit). This song is at a moderate tempo, pretty heavy, in the key of Em. The backing includes darker blues/rock notes, like the b2 (F) and the b5 (Bb) a lot.
- Using G minor pentatonic notes for tension and resolving to a more inside note (i.e. notes from the Em chord) sounds great. Includes the darker notes, not overly outside (as, for example, Bbm would be), and as an existing common scale serves as a good heuristic for implementing known patterns without too much thought.
In general:
- Find a different key/shape (i.e. pentatonic) different to the key of the song that includes some of the notes you want to emphasize, as a way to not have to think about those notes individually (so you can play faster, think less, whatever).
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