View Full Version : Help with soloing to the song, "Look at Miss Ohio"
bcreative
Feb-21-2016, 4:14pm
Hi. I play with a group, although we are all somewhere on the Intermediate spectrum. We have a lot of fun playing an eclectic range of music. I was playing guitar, but now play my mandolin 99% of the time. There are a couple songs that I would like to play solos on, or at least try! "Look at Miss Ohio", is one of them.
I saw in another post that someone uses "Putting on the Ritz", as a place to jump off for playing solos on "Compadres of the Old Sierra Madre". That got me to thinking, about how to figure something out for other songs I want to work on for solos.
Help is greatly appreciated!:mandosmiley:
roysboy
Feb-22-2016, 1:54am
The tried, true and effective " jumping off " point for any soloist no matter the instrument is to simply take cues from the song's melody ....either verse or chorus depending upon the chord progression you are soloing over . Learn the melody first ....then you can adapt parts spontaneously depending upon your knowledge of the scale in the given key .
onassis
Feb-22-2016, 6:59am
IIRC, "LaMO" has a dobro solo, kinda slow and languid. A good first step would be to try and replicate that solo on the mandolin, maybe using tremolo and double stops. Not too technically challenging, but it would take some listening and experimentation (both good things!).
Good Luck!
bcreative
Feb-22-2016, 9:48am
IIRC, "LaMO" has a dobro solo, kinda slow and languid. A good first step would be to try and replicate that solo on the mandolin, maybe using tremolo and double stops. Not too technically challenging, but it would take some listening and experimentation (both good things!).
Good Luck!
Sorry for being stupid, but I'm not sure what you mean by IIRC, LaMO. Thanks.
derbex
Feb-22-2016, 10:38am
If I Remember Correctly and Look at Miss Ohio -I guess.
bcreative
Feb-22-2016, 10:41am
If I Remember Correctly and Look at Miss Ohio -I guess.
Ha, ha! Got it!
Chris W.
Feb-24-2016, 10:13pm
Chords seem to be F C G Am. The C scale and Am pentatonic work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NPEj63d0jY
Found a live version where its played a whole step up, so G D A Bm. D scale or Bm pentatonic. If it were me I would start with copping the vocal melody then try to lift some of Dave Rawlings tasty licks and try to use his licks to tie the melody lines together. I really dig this tune btw. Good luck!
Starting off using the arpeggios for the chords in the progression would be one of the easiest ways to start "constructing" a solo. That's what I would do.