Songwriting

Target Tones: How to Effectively use Chord Notes in Your Guitar Solos

Target Tones: How to Effectively use Chord Notes in Your Guitar Solos

In this article we’re going to look at using chord tones, which are the notes that a chord is made up of, to make your solos sound more cohesive with the chords you’re playing over.

This is closely related to using arpeggios to solo, but good fretboard knowledge will also get you through if you want to stick to using scales.