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Hi Everyone,
Need your help once more. Lately I've been playing out more and more. I'm having a great time and love getting a lot of gigs but I seem to be limited to being able to play songs that I am able to play in one key and use the blues/minor pentatonic scale. Ex. Someone calls "statesboro Blues" by the Allman Bros. in "D". No problem. I can tear a solo up. I can play what I hear in my head easily. Don't even have to think. Just comes right out.
The better I get, the better the bands I'm playing with. I'm starting to play w/ bands that are playing more complicated songs. I.e. - songs like "seeing things" by The Black Crowes. I have been listening heavily to the crowes for the past 6 months and can hear great lines in my head. But when it comes to soloing on the tune, I can't wrap my head around what the hell they are doing and what scale/mode to use. Same goes for country songs w/ a blues feel. They are not playing the blues scale in the key they song is in. It sounds like it's a variation.
The song that's really frustrating me right now is "Seeing Things" by The Black Crowes.
It sounds so simple compared to some other tunes I've played on, but I just can't figure it out.
Please tell me what scales/modes you would use when doing background/soloing on this tune.
Here's a link to the tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjnOTU0Nexg
Thanks,
Ben P.
Need your help once more. Lately I've been playing out more and more. I'm having a great time and love getting a lot of gigs but I seem to be limited to being able to play songs that I am able to play in one key and use the blues/minor pentatonic scale. Ex. Someone calls "statesboro Blues" by the Allman Bros. in "D". No problem. I can tear a solo up. I can play what I hear in my head easily. Don't even have to think. Just comes right out.
The better I get, the better the bands I'm playing with. I'm starting to play w/ bands that are playing more complicated songs. I.e. - songs like "seeing things" by The Black Crowes. I have been listening heavily to the crowes for the past 6 months and can hear great lines in my head. But when it comes to soloing on the tune, I can't wrap my head around what the hell they are doing and what scale/mode to use. Same goes for country songs w/ a blues feel. They are not playing the blues scale in the key they song is in. It sounds like it's a variation.
The song that's really frustrating me right now is "Seeing Things" by The Black Crowes.
It sounds so simple compared to some other tunes I've played on, but I just can't figure it out.
Please tell me what scales/modes you would use when doing background/soloing on this tune.
Here's a link to the tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjnOTU0Nexg
Thanks,
Ben P.