Chord Tone Soloing - Step 1

Quick one for you.

The most important part of chord tone soloing? Turning chord shapes into single notes.

Most players get stuck right here. It’s easy enough to grab a chord and hold it as a block… but the real skill is letting go of that grip and picking out the individual notes inside it.

That’s where the music is, where the melody lines are.

There’s only one way to get it: practice.

Here I’m working around an E-form A7 barre chord at the fifth fret. A dominant 7 chord is just four ingredients — root, third, fifth, and flat seventh.

What you want to start seeing is every instance of those notes across the neck — not just this shape. When you can see all of that at once, you’re looking at what I call the Superchord. That's where my course PlaneTalk kicks in.

That’s Step 2.