Solo More Musically Using Leading Tones

Mastering leading tones will make your soloing sound more melodic, making your solos cooler and richer than just playing a scale up and down the neck. But, more importantly, targeting leading tones will help you MASTER musical tension. And when you can master musical tension, everyone will want to hear YOU play! It's an easy concept, so let’s dig in:

00:00 Demonstration
00:27 Thesis
01:23 Introduction
03:40 Lesson
09:57 Wrap Up

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Thanks for watching!
Chris

[Juan]

Heard about Leading Tones a thousand times. Never understood it till now. Even less how to use it on a guitar. Thank you for letting us grow!

[johncoyle]

Another application of Triads. The gift that keeps giving. I understand your soloing at a more advanced level than when I was simply dancing to it.

[diggeroldmate]

I don't really know why, but I feel like you've worked in aviation, Chris, because you explain concepts so well. Your delivery is very advanced. Brilliant as always.

[timsellsted]

This is great Chris! I makes so much sense to look for those half steps. Thanks for making this connection! Looking forward to the Modes Mastery class!

[scotthorslin]

Wow. Discovered the channel today, and so much good stuff! Never knew a sick day, home from work could bring so much joy and info! Thx Chris. 👍🏻😁

[cyclesudamerika]

Lightbolb moment for me. Great lesson. Thanks a lot Chris.

[waynegram]

Chris can you try to make another video like a part two that would illustrate and focus on the leading tones of different modes because the modes have certain leading tones that don't go from the 7th to the one there they're leading tones are in a different skill degree and so to emphasize that as well as using other scales and adding leaning tones to your guitar solos instead of it just sounding like you're running up and down major minor scales to try to focus on different leading tones that will be from harmonic minor fridge and dominant Lenny and dominant that will have the leading tones and you focus on those modes of Dorian lydian to have on instead of the solo sounding very vanilla in plain instead of the solo sounding very plain and vanilla of major minor we could focus on more of the leading tones from different scales to add into the the normal vanilla plain sounding scales

[popsfereal]

Short, to the point. Perfect for a Friday on the fly. Thank you.

[stevec]

Another great lesson. You have a way of explaining that's understandable and inspires further exploration. Comliments on your curious guitarist rotating c? 🎸 logo thing. Very cool. Thanks from Australia

[markstapleton]

I’ve been away for a while.. but I’m hoping to get back to it.. what a video to start with!! ❤

[markpell]

To paraphrase Victor Wooten regarding leading tones, if you're moving through a note that's not where you want to be now or for long, the right note is just one fret away, up or down. Make it sound like you meant to do that. Maybe even do it twice to make it sound like you REALLY meant to do that, if there's enough time. When you resolve it the relief is powerful.

[josephurbanowski]

Ooohh..! Another great one..!
Thanks Chris.👍🏼❤️

[kdavis]

Great explanation!!! THat helped me out a lot for

[tone-glide]

Great lesson! As always. I LOVE !!!! THAT GUITAR!!!

[capbubba]

Another great rabbit hole to chase notes into and out of, thanks for all the great lightbulb moments Chris 👍👍👍

[donlessnau]

Also, excellent explanation and demonstration of the leading tone. Always is so much better when someone not says what something is but then shows it on the guitar. It really sinks in that way. Great stuff. Thanks.

[Dave-gfkd]

Simply brilliant. Maybe one of your best ever!

[dimitribernardi]

Very usefull lesson.. it's like give the information to build my house you give me the piece bit the finale result dipend of me. Thank you don't know how Gold Is this information for a musicisn
. For guitarist maybe Is boring 😃

[splashesin]

My phone ran out of charge two different times while I was here earlier. Hi ya Chris! Thanks! :)

[Fake_Jesus]

What this lesson did was to show me how to link up triad shapes to sound interesting. Like!😇🎸