Ever wonder why some players’ licks sound sweet and melodic over a chord, while yours sound like random notes?
Here’s what most self-taught players never get told. The tastiest riffs aren’t random. They’re pulled from the notes already sitting inside the chord you’re playing over. In this quick lesson I take a plain F major chord, grab the three notes that build it (F, A and C), and turn them into a riff that sounds like it belongs. Once you hear it, you can’t un-hear it. And it works over any chord you already know.
In this lesson, you’ll learn:
- Why notes pulled straight from the chord sound more melodic, and a lot less “scaley”
- The exact F, A and C voicing up at the 8th fret that sets the riff up
- How the chord’s thirds give your soloing that sweet, almost vocal sound
- A simple way to find this same trick inside any chord, in any song
Here’s the backing track. Loop it and have fun hunting down those thirds in your own soloing: