Playing Over Changes Guitar Lesson

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This guitar lesson will help you play over key changes. The idea is to mentally visualize a note from the landing scale and use it to modulate. This technique is used in many genres including fusion, rock, jazz and more.

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[jimmmmybrady]

God bless you David, keep on giving that gift.

[guagua__]

thank you david you help me alot in improvisation elements !!! 

[Claypoool]

David your great!!!! Love the voice as it seems to relieve stress!!!!

[epipenguin]

Great lesson, David! Very useful as always :) 

[juankplaysomething]

that tele is sounding uber delicious on this video!

[juanjm]

Hey David, you seem like a very experienced and professional guitarist and teacher, I'm an amateur guitarist myself, i quit guitar class and recently I've been trying to get better by myself starting again from the very basic stuff, like various hand dexterity and flexibility exercises, major, minor, dominant 7th chords and stuff like that... I can't really find a starting point in your lessons playlist, most of these seem pretty advanced to me.

[iggyward]

Hi David, Great lesson, any advice on changing the melody early ( how early -1 beat, 2 beats? ) is it called "anticipating", I heard some jazz players doing something that sounded really interesting right at the key change but it was a live gig and I cant exactly remember what it was but it was very cool.

[MindsEyeVisualGuitarJourney]

Great Lesson, Thanks!  Questions: #1. I have this idea of playing some of the new scale notes just before the chord actually changes, to build some tension that resolves as soon as the new chord is sounded... would that work? I should just go practice this and see if I like how it sounds.  #2..  Since both of those keys (a b5 apart, cool choice! ) share 2 notes the E and the Bb, what your implying is those are the go to notes during the change to blend right into the new key/scale/arp. Correct?

[RickDanner]

ive been trying to play to the changes on 4 on 6 by wes - tough changes

[tadhermann]

Salut David, merci pour tes vidéos et tes cours, je vais attaquer ton Visual Track ce weekend, j'en ai déjà les doigts qui fument. héhé :)  j'ai une question qui me trotte depuis un moment, que penses tu de faire des backing tracks modals mais sur toutes les clés, ok je m'explique:  pour le définir par ex: 8 mesures en C puis 8 en C# puis 8 en D etc.. et ce pour tous les modes ? Bon ça fera des morceaux de 30 minutes :) mais ça permettrai d'avoir à s'exercer sur des clés qu'on n'a pas forcément l'habitude de jouer non ? 

[xxczerxx]

What about if I play something a bit silly like an Ionian Augmented over a maj 7 chord? Does it "work" if you...err...imply(?) a note that isn't in the chord as an actual functioning note and not just a kinda chromatic passing tone. P.S I'm on about the #5 specifically. Then again, you played lydian and to me that augmented 4th is somewhat confirming my suspicions.

[Jeffum]

Wearing your prison clothes David? Haha

[stupidusername]

One of the best things to do is to map out the semi tonal movement between the two chords.
Bbmaj 7 Bb, D, F, A.
Db m7. Db, E, Ab, B
Right away I can see that you could go down from D to Db, the root note.
You could also move from F to E, the minor third in Db m7. That's a strong movement. You could also move from A to Ab, the perfect fifth of Dbm7. Not the strongest sounding movement but still correct.