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“Chord noodling” is a phrase that I have coined to describe the chordal embellishments that guitarists often utilize. Since diatonic harmony is based on the major scale and the naturally occurring chords derived from that scale, it would make sense that all the chords and all the individual notes that make up the key, should “play well together”. That is, they will naturally harmonize or sound cohesive since they represent a single tonal center.
Since music is art and art is subjective, there is no right or wrong in regards to what note(s) a musician chooses to play. However, you will find that some notes sound better to you than others. These can be found by just “noodling” notes and finding which ones resonate with you. Think about this like taste. What you like, may not be what someone else likes, but pizza will most likely win out to raw collard greens for most folks…but not all. I say this to give you liberty in your note choice and to try to stay out of your head in overthinking this concept.
With all that said, any chord tone that you use over a major(1, 3, 5) chord, for example will just be another voicing of the same chord. However, if you play one scale step above any chord tone(2, 4, 6), you might not like the sound as much or you may find that it wants to resolve back to one of the chordal tones. Music is a constant ebbing and flowing of tension and release just like the many ying/yang examples that we see in nature(magnets, matter/anti-matter, etc). But again, now we are getting up in our heads. At the end of the day, what do the chosen notes sound like to YOU. Do you like them, or not? If you don’t, then change them. It’s literally that simple. Do what sounds good to YOU.
If I can give you any advice with this, it’s that “less is more”. Even though the noodling maps give you many choices, truth me told, just using two or three notes and establishing some sort of musical “hook” with them while you move through a series of chords, will most likely yield the result you are looking for. Keep it simple and think about creating a motif(musical ideas) that will act a thread to “tie” chords together. Any two or more notes tied together is a motif. Have fun with this and instead of thinking like a scientist or musicologist, I prefer you think like a child who is finger painting. There are no rules. There is only what you like and don’t like.
This is a two-part series. Day #1 will focus on the key of C major and it’s relative key of A minor. Day #2 will focus on the key of G major and it’s relative key of E minor.
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