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Guitar chords melody part 2

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Channel: New Secret Guitar Teacher · 2016 · Music

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Guitar chords and melody. Play Sunny using both chords and melody. Beginners guitar combining chords with melody.

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Video script:
Ok, in the lesson on the Minor Pentatonic Scale we learnt this melody to Sunny... And in the last sound bite we learnt this chord sequence.

 Now in this little lesson we are going to put these two elements together to create this version of the song that includes both melody and chords. Let's start with the first phrase.

Notice I hold the complete chord shape down in spite of the fact that I am not actually sounding the fourth string. This makes sense in the long run, because it means that you can use the same familiar chord shapes instead of having to learn new shapes each time. It is also a safeguard, because if you do happen to pick the wrong strings, it won't sound bad if you are fingering a complete chord shape. 

Next we jump up the fretboard to play this little C7 shape at fret 8. We are then nicely located to find the melody notes that descend down from the C at fret 8 on the top string.

Next we want to go for our FMaj7 chord, but in order to catch the D note we want fr the melody, we turn this into an F6 chord. Notice we can then play the next few notes with this shape held down. And we finish this first line by holding down our E7sus4 chord  plucking just the top four strings and then changing to E7 and plucking the same four strings again.

OK Here's the whole of that line again in slow tempo. And here's the tab. Notice that notes that are held down but not struck are shown in brackets.

The second line is almost an exact copy of the first  but when we come to the end of the line we add these two notes   to lead us into the second half of the tune. Then we hold down the Am chord and add the melody notes by using the pinky here at fret 3 on the 2nd string. 

Next we switch to the Am natural 7th chord, adding the same notes but with  a slightly different rhythm]. Then the Am7 chord adding the notes in reverse order. Then we jump up to the Am6 here at the 4th fret, but then immediately let that go as we jump back to the 1st fret for just three notes this time.

OK Here's the whole of that line again in slow tempo. And here's the tab.
 
Into the home strait. Nice easy bit now with the FMaj7 chord changing to the E7 on the last half beat of the bar, then hit the same chord twice more and back to Am.

That concludes the melody, but we through the E7sus4 E7 change in again to help us turn around back into the next verse. Here's the tab for that last line.

Now here's a slow tempo demo of the whole tune. I've done this split screen so that you can see the detail on either hand.

This is pretty advanced for a beginner's lesson, but I promise that with practice there's nothing physically too difficult here.

To help you, there is a full printout available by clicking on the link beneath the screen.
 
I'll leave you to work on that for a week and in the next sound bite we'll complete the task by adding in some nice fills using basic finger picking technique that we have covered in earlier sound bites.

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