Topic: scales
What does it mean to play a scale over a cord?
- Russell_Harding
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Re: scales
simply put whatever chord your playing major,minor etc.. play the scale associated with the chord or key your in, as an example if your playing a A major chord you could play a A major scale or a F#minor scale because F# (relative minor) is the 6Th interval or step in the A major scale this is used in many Rock,blues and country songs there are other examples to be sure this is a basic one an easier example is the C chord the 6th interval or step is A so you could play an A minor scale over the C major likewise you could substute a C6 for an A minor because in the key of C the 6th is an A this works for any key 
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- Roger Guppy
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Re: scales
Hi Danny 1313 and welcome to Chordie,
One of the first songs I teach my students is "Knocking on Heaven's Door" and then they can play the it I get them to play the C scale in place of the C chords in the chorus: 2 beats of G, two beats of D and then the C scale at 2 notes per beat. It makes learning the scale more interesting.
Roger
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Re: scales
thank you very much. This site is great.
Danny