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I joined jammr few days ago looking for learning music. In my little expirience here I noticed that all musicians are too advance for my skills so I cannot join weekly jams yet but there is a lot of patience with good advices for beginners. Hope to learn from you to join one day to jams. I like ukulele, recorder, guitar, drums and piano. May be a begginer topic would be helpful on forum.

Edited adi (Sept. 30, 2014 20:01:05)

adi
I joined jammr few days ago looking for learning music. In my little expirience here I noticed that all musicians are too advance for my skills so I cannot join weekly jams yet but there is a lot of patience with good advices for beginners. Hope to learn from you to join one day to jams. I like ukulele, recorder, guitar, drums and piano. May be a begginer topic would be helpful on forum.

Welcome adi!

We have already jammed several times but I just wanted to say I look forward to hearing you play more once you feel ready.

I need a little help. I made a loop in musescore in order to make some practice for solo. I tried to join chords and drums at the same time in this way. The chords progression is C G Am F. I do not realize what notes to play for solo, is it only picking the cord on individual notes or I can play extra notes? If someone can suggest me some chords progression and solos please attach a simple score of an example of jam. Musescore cannot make loops but one can substitute with repetitions

Attachments:
jam C TOBE rec.zip (7.2 KB)

adi
The chords progression is C G Am F. I do not realize what notes to play for solo, is it only picking the cord on individual notes or I can play extra notes?

The notes in the current chord always sound “right”. Major and Minor chords are triads so that means 3 notes to choose from that belong to the chord.

But there are more notes you can play. The chord progression you posted is in C Major, so you can try using the full C Major scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major

Some notes in the C Major scale don't sound as satisfying as others across particular chords in the progression. They are called non-chord tones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonchord_tone

Playing only chord tones limits melodies. It is more interesting to mix in non-chord tones too. Sometimes they are called “passing notes” because you play them as part of a movement to the next chord tone without staying on them for too long.

An easy scale for improvization is the Pentatonic scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

It only has 5 notes instead of 7 (like the Major scale) and sounds fine with all chords in the key. It's a popular scale because it is easy to play melodies that sound good. There are a lot of YouTube videos about Pentatonic scales.

By the way, this is the extent of my knowledge so please explore the links or YouTube. I probably can't answer deeper questions because my music theory is basic. I solo using a pentatonic scale and sometimes I use the full major scale if I'm feeling more brave .

Stefan