Tablature for examples presented in this lesson can be found here: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/chord-melody-guitar-exercise-and-drills
@CarolAndersonAPPLLC17 күн бұрын
This really is good. I can't tell you how many places I have looked for this and not found it. The piano analogy makes sense to me and the explanation is well done. Thank you.
@acousticguitarlessons16 күн бұрын
@CarolAndersonAPPLLC, you are very welcome! Glad the video was helpful to you :)
@leithold31510 ай бұрын
This! This is exactly what i was missing! Kept trying to play chords with melody together but just ended up jumping from one to the other making it sound disconnected! Thanks for this and looking forward to watching your other vids!
@acousticguitarlessons10 ай бұрын
@leithold315, you are very welcome. Glad this video has helped with your chord/melody playing :)
@MultiCugel2 жыл бұрын
I've been watching people on youtube playing and thinking how do they do this? Somethings going on but i don't know what it is! Now you 've shown us Thanks! It's going to take time and effort but the best things do. Thanks for the video and book, much appreciated.
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome Bill! I'm glad the lesson has been useful for you :)
@Enryu_CZX Жыл бұрын
It's the chords in different position all over the neck not only one chord but various types of chords major7 minor 9 etc the triads in different string sets of strings and double stops
@michaelzimmer11158 ай бұрын
I spent a lot of time doing this decades ago, primarily in the C major harmonization. It gets a lot harder to hold a chord shape when you move up the neck. Mostly, you have to let go of the chord shape.
@acousticguitarlessons8 ай бұрын
@michaelzimmer1115, yes, a little different higher up the neck with some chords for sure, but certainly doable :)
@stuartarnold44952 жыл бұрын
Nice to start at a basic level. I will certainly try this out and that will take a while because my collarbone is broken. Thanks Simon for this video.
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
You are welcome Stuart! Sorry to hear about your collarbone
@sylvaincedricjosephine84087 күн бұрын
Great drills to practice...
@acousticguitarlessons7 күн бұрын
@sylvaincedricjosephine8408, let me know how you go with them :)
@TamaraGrace2 жыл бұрын
Great advice. I downloaded your tabs for this and have watched this video 3 times so far. I've been looking for this type of style. I will keep cracking at this until I get it, fluently. I'll be coming back here for that. Thanks so much Great tutorial!
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome Tamara! I'm glad you've found the video useful. Let me know if you have any questions at all :)
Wow your lessons just took what I learned about theory to another break through for me thank you your lessons are great 👍
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
That’s great to hear Wayne!! Glad you like the lessons :)
@berniew63322 жыл бұрын
thanks again Simon, great tips and advice
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome Bernie! :)
@mickymiller61306 ай бұрын
Essential lesson for aspiring fingerstyle guitarists.
@acousticguitarlessons6 ай бұрын
@mickymiller6130, glad you think so :)
@tuna22lm Жыл бұрын
I was hoping to find someone that taught guitar using chords but also taught how to play the exact same song by playing just using each string note for note but not making the shape of the chord I guess kind of what a lead guitar player would play if this makes sense I don't know how else to put it kind of like playing a flute note for note except using the guitar. Some songs sound really cool when played one string at a time on guitar.
@cyrilmoussoki31932 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome Cyril! :)
@michaelzimmer11158 ай бұрын
I have not seen another KZbin video giving this method. It is good; it worked for me. Cannot say I have been able to do it nearly as well in higher positions. I think to some extent, I have stuck too much with standard CAGED shapes, which tie up too many fingers. CAGED as a descriptive system is great. As a prescriptive system, it has some flaws. That is my deficiency, since thousands can work very freely up the neck. With the open chords, and guitar friendly keys, I don't seem to have to think about which chord(s) to use for given melody notes. I guess it is like learning to read whole lines of text instead of word at a time. I guess we could call it development of the musical intuition - fingers and ear and connection between them.
@acousticguitarlessons8 ай бұрын
@michaelzimmer1115, glad you found the lesson helpful :) It is different in higher positions and fragmented chords and open string friendly keys do help in situations like this. Sometimes a single open string is enough to imply/suggest a chord.
@wienerdimanche82917 ай бұрын
When you play the chord then do you play the notes of the chord.and what the nbrs 3103 you pick what they represent fingers or fret
@acousticguitarlessons7 ай бұрын
@wienerdimanche8291, the numbers represent the frets :)
@nostro10018 ай бұрын
This was insightful thank you! 😎👍 At first I thought this video was a day old, until reading comments and saw this is a year old, not that good information is time relevant. I was just more surprised that I'd never seen this on my feed before. Your Maton sounding very clear, I can't quite work out what model that is.. 808 of some variety (doesn't have the headstock to be a messiah) 🤔 Cheers.
@acousticguitarlessons8 ай бұрын
@nostro1001, you are welcome! It's an Em325c Maton. Discontinued around 2010, but yes, a nice guitar with a good sound :)
@nostro10018 ай бұрын
@@acousticguitarlessons Thank you!
@acousticguitarlessons8 ай бұрын
@@nostro1001 you are welcome! :)
@tuna22lm Жыл бұрын
I took music lessons on guitar when I was 12 it was playing songs note for note on each corresponding strings didn't learn chords at all, that was over 40 something years ago ,I am 70 now can't work so wanted to try guitar again I have been trying to find that same style of learning on line but can't, I figured that would be a good place to start short of buying a bunch oof music books ,haven't quite given up YET.
@acousticguitarlessons Жыл бұрын
I believe you simply mean learning the melodies of songs as opposed to the chords of the song, is that correct?
@tuna22lm Жыл бұрын
@@acousticguitarlessons yes I believe you are right, I guess it is a little bit like playing lead guitar.
@MOON-gf4tl2 жыл бұрын
While doing percussion i hit other notes which sometimes sounds good and sometimes bad , why that happens and what to do fr it???
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
It's hard to say without seeing you play and without any real detail about the issue you are having. Are you playing VERY slowly to eliminate inaccurate playing. If your playing is inaccurate, the you are not playing slow enough and/or breaking what it is you are working on into small enough pieces :)
@wfqsfg5 ай бұрын
Are you working towards what is referred to as Chet Atkins style?
@acousticguitarlessons5 ай бұрын
@wfqsfg, not necessarily, although I do love and play that style which is known as Travis Picking :)
@wfqsfg5 ай бұрын
@@acousticguitarlessons Yes, I am very familiar with Travis Picking. You are a very good teacher. Keep up the good work.
@CarnivalVillage2 жыл бұрын
Thank you...
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome Michael! :)
@dimwitsadvocate6264 Жыл бұрын
So just to be clear, you play the scale for the chord being played at the moment. The key of the song is in C. When playing the C chord, you play the C scale notes. Then you go to the D minor chord and play the D scale notes. Then you play the E minor chord and play the E scale notes. Do I understand it correctly? UPDATE: In looking at your video some more, I look at when you play the E minor chord (@7:10) and see on the tab that the first note you pluck is a G, the next one is F. There is no G or F in the key of E, only G# and F#. And the patterns for C, Dm, Em are the same. So it appears all the chords are using the notes of the C scale. Or am I just totally confused?
@acousticguitarlessons Жыл бұрын
@dimwitsadvocate6264, yes, I am only using notes from the C Major scale, because this is the key I am in. All the chords I am using are from the C Major scale, therefore I play them with notes from this scale. Does that make sense?
@dimwitsadvocate6264 Жыл бұрын
@@acousticguitarlessons Yes, it makes perfect sense. I thought I had to use a different scale for each chord. I didn't know using the scale of the key of the song would work. Your way is much easier for this amateur. I went over the video a lot and finally saw that you were using the same notes for each chord, so I asked to see if I was seeing things correctly. You, once again, have been very helpful! Thank you very much!!
@acousticguitarlessons Жыл бұрын
@@dimwitsadvocate6264 you are most welcome :)
@rebeccasimmons60529 ай бұрын
I play the piano and I don't understand WTF he's doing😅 the only thing I understand about the guitar is holding the strings down and strumming the chord.
@acousticguitarlessons9 ай бұрын
@@rebeccasimmons6052, I am simply holding chord shapes down and playing notes from the corresponding scale at the same time, just like you would when you play piano, only you have two hands available to do this, on guitar we have to do it with our fretting hand only :)
@tuna22lm Жыл бұрын
So now I see what you are doing only moving a couple fingers while holding the chord shape with your other fingers, I get it now, almost like what I was talking about earlier but different, mine didn't require holding chord shapes at all.
@acousticguitarlessons Жыл бұрын
Glad you understand :)
@HealthySkepticism777 Жыл бұрын
For some reason I’m not getting any of your emails when trying to get the ebook
@acousticguitarlessons Жыл бұрын
Can you tell me what happens when you try to download the eBook? Have you checked your junk mail? Do you receive any error messages?
@HealthySkepticism777 Жыл бұрын
@@acousticguitarlessons KZbin removed my previous reply for whatever reason. No error messages. It says I’m successfully subscribed and I can browse the website. But no emails are coming through. Edit: it came through about 24 hours later.
@jfarrell212 жыл бұрын
When you start talking about the notes above and below, but within the scale, isn't that getting into modes? Or am I confusing things?
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
Hi John. It depends on the context. I see where you are coming from, and yes, if I start the C major scale for example on the E note, we could be playing E Phrygian, but I would also need an E Phrygian chord progression to play over to be in Phrygian. If there is no progression, then I can imply the key, for example Phrygian, by starting on the E note and setting it up to be the tonic of the key by returning to it regularly and at the end of phrases etc. I have a modes video here if you have not seen it yet that explains further: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJvJd5qsp5hjmNU
@jfarrell212 жыл бұрын
@@acousticguitarlessons I find all of this fascinating (while really just starting out on guitar). I've read enough articles or watched enough videos to make me dangerous. Thanks for the prompt reply. Cheers.
@acousticguitarlessons2 жыл бұрын
@@jfarrell21 you are very welcome and yes it is all fascinating stuff for sure :)
@tuna22lm Жыл бұрын
I'm trying to understand, maybe if you played something super simple like Mary had a little lamb, showed the chord shape/s then plucked each individual string, I'm trying to follow what your playing to your diagram but it is to fast for me sorry.
@acousticguitarlessons Жыл бұрын
You can slow down the video in the settings for the video if that helps? I also have eBooks that break the topic of chord/melody down into greater detail that might interest you. Here is one such eBook: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/how-to-play-chords-and-melody-at-the-same-time-on-one-guitar And here is another: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/how-to-create-your-own-unique-solo-acoustic-instrumental-song
@mariodujak34482 жыл бұрын
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@johndavid9973 Жыл бұрын
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@KipIngramАй бұрын
So... this feels "partial" to me. You're keeping BITS of the chord while you play the melody. I guess it's better than none, but it's still a far cry from what you can do on a piano. How about using the low three strings for the chord and the high three for the melody?
@acousticguitarlessonsАй бұрын
@KipIngram, of course, we are limited on a guitar compared to a piano as far as chord/melody stuff is concerned :) You could certainly play the chords on the lower 3 strings and melody on the top 3. I think that is a good guide/general rule to get started, but I wouldn't strictly follow that as you miss out on harmony possibilities on the top 3 strings. I have some videos on chord/melody playing you might be interested in such as this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKLIiHiXrZJ7mbc