What Scales Go With What Chords? Finding The Right Scales for Chords on Guitar

free download: printable parent scales improvisation lead guitar music theory scales May 09, 2023

In this video I'll show you how to find what scales go with what chords.
🎸 FREE PDF: Download the most important scale diagrams for guitar



🕛 What Scales Go With What Chords?

0:00 - About this video
0:40 - Option #1: Know the key of the song
1:35 - Option #2: Alter the parent scale
2:44 - Option #3: Use the pentatonic scale
3:56 - Option #4: Build a scale
6:28 - Printable parent scales (FREE PDF)
7:15 - Watch next
7:45 - Outro



🔗 Links & Lessons Mentioned in This Video

🎸 Scales lessons series
🎸 FREE PDF: Download the most important scale diagrams for guitar
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💬 Lesson Description

Sometimes a chord comes up in a chord progression that throws us off when we’re improvising.

In this video I’m going to talk about what scales go with what chords.

I’ll demonstrate how to find the right scales for chords with chord progressions that:

  • stay in one key

  • contain chords outside that key

  • contain 7th chords

I think you'll find these tips really useful if you're someone who improvises and wants to be able to find reliable scales for chords or interesting scale options that you might not have known about.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson about finding the right scales for chords. Let me know what you thought in the comments.

Thanks! :)

- Jared



🎸 FREE PDF: Download the most important scale diagrams for guitar


 

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