Guitar Soloing Lessons for Beginners How to Harmonize Minor Scales

This guitar soloing lesson for beginners will show how to harmonize minor scales (Pentatonic Minor/Blues with Natural Minor). Along with guitar tab and backing rhythm tracks to practice and jam along with, we’re covering it all with a step by step approach! @PaluzziGuitar Guitar Soloing Lessons for Beginners [How to Harmonize Minor Scales] 0:00 Lesson Preview 0:35 Have a Foundation 0:55 Relative Minor Scales 2:07 ’Pure’/Primary Riffs 3:02 Combining Blues and Minor Riffs 5:44 Playing Riffs with Rhythm 6:01 ’A’ Minor Rhythm Guitar Track (with riffs) 7:19 ’Taking the Edge Off’ Pure Moods 8:09 Rearranging Riffs - Variations 9:12 ’A’ Minor Rhythm Guitar Track (no riffs) 10:32 More Harmonizing Options 11:24 ’B’ Minor Rhythm Guitar Track 13:01 Lesson Review Guitar Scales Lessons Playlist How to Harmonize Minor Scales Guitar Lesson With this lesson we are going to take the first step in being able to mix and combine different scales while soloing. From a creative perspective, this will be the first step in being able to shift or change moods within the same guitar solo. From a music theory perspective, this involves learning how to improvise with different scales without sounding out of key, and the two scales we will focus on in this lesson will be the Pentatonic Minor/Blues scale and the Natural Minor Scale. Harmonize Minor Scale With its sad and serious tone, the Natural Minor scale has been the primary scale used in many famous guitar solos. Many times, however, other scales are combined with or harmonized with the Natural Minor scale in order to add more color or variation to the overall mood of a solo. One of the scales most-often harmonized with the Natural Minor scale is the Pentatonic Minor scale. This Minor Scale guitar lesson will show how to harmonize or ‘mix’ both scales together within the same key. Establish a Foundation of Guitar Scales Lessons Before starting this scale harmonization guitar lesson, you should already have a foundation of guitar scale basics with both the Blues scale and the Minor scale. This includes knowing various Blues and Flamenco riffs on guitar, knowing various guitar soloing techniques such as bending, vibrato, hammering, and phrasing, and having some experience with jamming, soloing, and harmonizing riffs with backing rhythms. Being able to recognize the essential differences in tone between each scale will make the transition to combining and harmonizing both scales less challenging. Relative Scales Both the Natural Minor and Pentatonic Minor scales share the same description of ‘Minor’ because they are relative scales that share similar notes. How to Harmonize Guitar Scales/Different Moods Aside from the more-standard or ‘strict’ Blues and Flamenco-style progressions, most songs will featuresome type of harmonization between various scales. After becoming familiar with alternating between Blues and Minor scale riffs, the next step is to hearhow both scales harmonize together when played overa backing rhythm. Though practicing with a second rhythm guitarist works best, practicing along with prerecorded songs or rhythm tracks will also work. Even on pre-recorded tracks where a pre-existing solo can also be heard, it still helps to ‘jam-along’ with these recordings as certain riffs will tend to ‘land’ or harmonize with those heard on the recording. How to Change Moods in a Guitar Solo With more knowledge of musical theory, the more a guitarist can mold or construct a solo to whatever mood is desired. Though the previous steps focus on alternating between Blues and Minor scale riffs, the guitarist has the option to emphasize one scale over another depending on the desired mood. For example, one soloist may prefer to play 75 percent Blues and 25 percent Minor scale while jamming , while another may prefer more of an emphasis with the Minor scale. The Natural Minor and Pentatonic Minor scales will always harmonize within the same key, however, certain styles of music require that a specific format be followed. For example, playing a Flamenco-style riff overa twelve-bar Blues shuffle simply will not ‘fit’ within the Blues format, nor would playing Blues riffs overa traditional flamenco-style rhythm. Paluzzi Guitar The objective of the Paluzzi Guitar video series is to help establish a foundation of guitar fundamentals by applying various playing techniques (rhythm, fingerstyle, and soloing) to various styles of music. The more playing styles and techniques a guitarist can learn, the more diverse and self-sufficient a guitarist will become. Guitar Lessons Guitar Soloing Lessons for Beginners [How to Harmonize Minor Scales]