I was about to try and say exactly these two things. Thinking the first thing to do is respect the chord with 'the right scale' is liable to make you sound like you don't know what time it is. It's hard to type really meaningful things to illustrate this, for me at least, so I say model it, transcribe what's been done.tapper mike wrote:
Getting back to EC in a blues context he usually plays hardest against the IV chord maintaining the key/tonic. Most blues players only accommodate playing the changes during the turnaround as he does.
I like try and do more with less. I like the thing about see how far holding onto the tonic gets you. Find out about notes with chords an element at a time.