Lecture 45: Practical Soloing - The Aeolian Mode

In this lesson, we will learn a solo using the A aeolian mode (otherwise known as the A natural minor scale), over a typically aeolian chord progression. This solo highlights the characteristic notes of the aeolian mode.

It’s important to remember that all of our information, both in our solo and in the chords beneath, comes from our parent scale of C major. In addition to learning the solo, we will discuss any additional diatonic arpeggios and pentatonic scales we can use, along with our 7 note scale ideas, when soloing over this backing track.

The solos I played in this section are merely suggestions. If you want to increase your vocabulary and learn some new licks, by all means, learn the solos note-for-note, but it’s more important to simply experiment with and explore each scale while having fun with the backing tracks.

As a bonus, I have also included the Guitar Pro (.gp) files, for the benefit of those with the Guitar Pro software by Arobas Music. It's not essential that you have this software, but the interactive TAB can be fun!

Resources:

modes-a-aeolian-100bpm.mp3