advice???

ei guys...just wanna ask if your making a lead on a song your going to base your lead on a scale ryt? but i'm confused what about if my chords are D-Bm-C-A all in the g Key am i going to use the g maj scale or other scales...???

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you could use the g major scale II postion of the e minor pentatonic. or the d major II postion of b minor pentatonic, that is if you want to make it in major. You could use b minor pentatonic if you want to make it minor/blues feel to it. if you added at least one sharp somehow, you could make it a different key by using the circle of fifths.

I could give you an incredibly long lesson in answer to your question, but haven't got the time at the moment. I imagine that A chord at the end of the progression sounds a bit weird, but hey it's your song!
You are correct in saying you should use the Gmajor scale, but more directly, the modes from Gmajor. I won't explain them all now, there'll be a very clever person reading this who can do that instead!
Here's what you can play:

Dmaj chord: D Mixolydian
Bmin chord: B Phrygian
Cmaj chord: C Lydian
Amaj chord: A Ionian/A Dorian (anyone else reading this who knows, Amaj doesn't fit into Gmajor so scale is debatable-please do tell!)

Use the 'guitar scales' tool at the top of the page.

Regards,
Afro

Having just tried out that progression on the Jam Machine everything I said in the last post could well be wrong! Please help?

Afro

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none of the chords are G, so are you sure the key is G?

You are right. there's no G chord, but C (CEG), D(DF#A) and Bm(BDF#) have the notes found in G major scale. A(AC#E) is a little out of whack because it has a major third (C#). Try using G major scale/ ionian mode for D, Bm, and C and the when u r in A, use the major scale but use minor third instead of major 3rd.. i dont know how it will sound but just give it a go. maybe it will sound good.

i think it's just in D major with the C beeing a bVII chord, it's used sometimes to replace the VIIth diminished chord :)

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