How To Use Tritone Substitutions in Guitar Solos

David Wallimann
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Published 2019-04-17
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The tritone is a very dissonant interval also known as the devil's interval! On the fretboard is the distance of a diminished fifth or an augmented fourth.

This interval is really useful for injecting an outside sound to your improvisations. Remember that the key to playing outside is: do not stay too long on the outside notes and know how and when to come back in.

In today's example, our backing track is in A Dorian so our basic scale for this would be A minor pentatonic. To get the outside sound, we are going to transpose it a tritone above to the E flat minor pentatonic.

Timing is very important in outside playing and a great rule of thumb is to introduce your outside scales whenever you hear a drum fill.

Another tip is to keep your normal scales and your outside sounds in the same area of the fretboard, so it sounds coherent.

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All Comments (21)
  • @micahjoosten7844
    David I think you accidentally said E minor pent scale instead of E-flatt pent. Confused me for a minute. You fixed it later on in the video. I can't stress enough how grateful I am to have a teacher of your caliber at my disposal. Truly amazing
  • @Tallguyalec
    Hi David, haven't seen your videos for several months, loving this one. The pacing, drop-in backing tracks and several camera angles are much appreciated!
  • @mikewallner1
    Needed this. Thx. Really trying to get a more fusionish sound in my playing. This is a super easy and straight forward way to accomplish that. Thanks again.
  • @antoniocoelho1490
    Hi Ya David... First of all, I just would like to say thank you for your vids and also how great they have been important to me. I´ve been a guitar teacher for many years and I believe our approaches as helpers are quite similar, especially for making students have to think about musicality and come out of "boxes". Cheers and bends Up!!!!!!!!
  • @jacquesd5781
    Awesome lesson - I'm so glad I discovered this channel! Thanks for sharing these! Cheers!
  • @Jay-lr3me
    The drum fill tip was cool, subscribed
  • @HarlanHarvey76
    Excellent video for the intermediate guitarist looking to expand their improvisation skills!!
  • @redram5150
    Randy Rhoads did this, for instance, in Crazy Train. When he’d make his scale runs, at the very end he’d pick a note out of key. He was moving so fast it’s nearly imperceptible. It grabs your attention and makes the track engaging to the listener
  • @abshinasi4581
    First visit! Amazing video, thanks so much. I have heard this sound so in different peoples improv and never known what it is. I'm looking forward to having a crack.
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