enardi wrote:hey bill, what scale did you use for your leads here? I saw in one of your responses that you use the d major petatonic, but I can't quite get it to sound right (or is that d scale just for the em g d section?), do you use other scales as well?Here's how I look at this:
First off I'm always thinking and noting chord tones as I pass through a chord and head toward the next.
The Em-G-D part I'm pretty much thinking D major Pentatonic with G added - can add the C# as well and think D Ionian. I suppose I'm thinking D maj Pentatonic with a G or C# here and there. If you think D Ionian then mode wise you'd think:
All the same notes
Over the Em - E Dorian
Over the G - G Lydian
Over the D - D Ionian
The A-G-D - A Mixolydian
Or Mode wise:
Again all the same notes as above
Over the A - A Mixolydian
Over the G - G Lydian
Over the D - D Ionian
F#- F# Mixolydian
A - A Mixolydian
The F# is the only real key modulation I see in this song - as far as I can tell anyway
Let me know if this helps any.
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