Soloing Application: Stir It Up
In this lesson we’re going to learn an eight-bar solo for the song Stir It Up. Here’s the jam track. The progression is eight bars long, and looks like this:
A | A | D | E
A | A | D | E
Because we’re in the key of A major, we’ll be soloing in the relative minor which is F# minor. We’ll be using all those great scales you’ve learned in previous lessons; the pentatonic minor, the diatonic minor, and the three position climb.
Here’s the tab for the riffs we’ll be learning – each bar contains a separate riff:
