dead flowers

ok the osng dead flowers by the rolling stones appears to be in the key of D major. i wanted to add my own solo to it but i cant seem to find the right scale in the right key. can anyone figure this out and let me know how it works? i believe theres only 5 chords used in the entire song D A G Dsus2 and D sus4

So, use the D major scale? Those chords are in the key of D. You could also use... B minor, along with D majors modes.

You can't go go far wrong there so have a go and then get back to us.

duuh lol wtf was i thinking thanks doz oh one question though how did you know b minor would also work i wanna know that. cause i usually just stick to soloing in the key of a song. do you think you could explain that to me? thanks

B minor (or B Aeolian) is the relative minor to D major.

Yeah, what GS said. The minor scale is a mode (from the 6th degree if I remember correctly) of the major scale. There are other modes, this happens to be the 6th one. So...

D  E  F  G  A  B  C

*              ^  



F  G  A  B  C  D  E

*              ^  



C  D  E  F  G  A  B

*              ^  

The asterix marks the kye, the arrow marks the relative minor. Just count 6 including the one you're on and the relative minor is the one you land on. It opens up the neck for you a bit.

Doz...D major is: D E F# G A B C# (so the modes would be D Ionian, E Dorian, F# Phrygian, G Lydian A Mixolydian B Aeolian and C# Locrian).
and F major is: F G A Bb C D E...

Oh yeah, of course. I didn't put the sharps and flats in, but I didn't really think about that - I was just showing the sixth degree of the scale as simple as possible.

Now I look at it though I can imagine someone getting confused wondering if they don't have flats and sharps in or not. Sorry about that.

its cool...just thought id clear that up for people.

hmmmm i see thanks for your help