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Hi Everyone,

Join me Thursday, June 1st at 10AM Pacific Time for the weekly live Q&A.

If the above link isn’t working for you, here is a link to watch directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnIhwmWJh5g

Here's how it works: bring your questions to the comments below, the Office Hours community forum thread, or save them for the live chat.* Questions can be about anything you want - guitar technique, music theory, gear, songwriting - your choice! Also, feel free to link a video of you playing if you have a technique question!

I'll do my best to answer your questions and give examples of how you develop skills related to your question.

Keep in mind, you can always watch later if you can't make it live! Check back a few hours after the stream for a numbered list of each question and a timestamped link to each answer.

*Please note: you may need a youtube/gmail account to ask questions in the live stream, but you can watch without one.

Check out the Lesson Archive for more Office Hours Live Streams

Other helpful links: Scott's Recommended Lesson PlanSearchable Lesson ArchiveHow to Join the Community ForumScott's Jam TracksSPJ Live YouTube ChannelScott's Main YouTube Channel

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OFFICE HOURS 122 | Thursday, June 1st, 10AM Pacific Time

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D'oh!-Ray-Me

Hi Scott. Hope you feel better soon. My question is how do we know which scale/scales to play over a chord/chords? If we play a C major chord a C major scale would seem to be the go-to one but what other choices do we have?

Wayne Barlow

Hi Scott Hope you're feeling better quickly. Feeling lousy in the Summer is..., lousy. So taking your help from last week, I took the plunge and started playing with some local musicians this week, and will play at an Open Mic next Tuesday. Nervous but excited as well. Playing Wagon Wheel and Angel from Montgomery as nice simple songs to get started with and I'll be playing the rhythm. The other guitar player will play the lead in the songs and he was mentioning soloing to voice leading. Briefly he said it had to do with common notes, or close notes within the notes of the chords I was playing in the progression. I remember hearing you talk about that when I was reviewing MTM 5 for the Melody course. Can you explain what Voice leading is a bit more? Thanks