Continuing with the next set (the D, G, B strings), we repeat much of the same material from Chapter 1, with an added emphasis on progressions, different musical approaches for these shapes, chord melodies, and writing.
Continuing with the next set (the D, G, B strings), we repeat much of the same material from Chapter 1, with an added emphasis on progressions, different musical approaches for these shapes, chord melodies, and writing.
- Chord Melody Exercise - We start looking at these small shapes as tools to play basic chord melodies. As long as you know the melody, the chords, and the voicings you can use to play both at the same time, you can basically create any chord melody you want. We do this with a very simple exercise made of a simple major scale as our melody.
- Creating A Chord Melody - Taking everything we know, we create a chord melody of a very popular tune from scratch by doing a few simple things. What we do in this video can be recreated with basically any tune you'd ever want, as long as there is a melody and chords.