"Chord tone soloing" is what it's called in jazz, but it's the same thing blue grass players do as well. It can be as simple as starting on the root, going away, and coming back. It's good to learn licks within scales which sound like the actual chord being played regardless of style.
A good non-jazz approach to learning to hear and play some of this is to play separate pentatonic scales for each chord. Gmaj-pent for G, Emin-pent for Em, D-pent for D etc. It's good for tightening up your ability to hear and be able to hit chord tones in the general key, but it also has big payoffs when you get to really DIFFERENT changes.
Tunes like Wild Horses don't necessarily work really well to just generalize the whole key. You really have to outline changes. This approach with the pentatonics really helps to convey the B minor chord and the F in that one. This approach works especially well for dealing with difficult "out" chords in things like Beatles tunes , with more modulation etc.
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