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(@spart)
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Ok..this might sound like a newbie questioin but I gotta ask or it'll never make sense to me. In my music book, when reading about scales, it says " the notes of a C scale can be played over a C chord, but also over an F chord or a G chord" What does playing over a chord mean? I've seen this reference many times but wasn't sure what it meant.


   
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It means the rhythm guitar is playing a C chord (or F or G), and the lead guitar is creating a melody made up of C scale notes.

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Those chords are also in the key of C that's why you play the C scale over them.

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