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Now it's time to play through our practice tune at full speed. I'm not using a metronome or a backing track, because the idea is for you to play this arrangement at whichever tempo you're comfortable with. It's more important to play it well than to play it fast. I recommend you watch and listen a few times before you start playing along with me, and as always the ultimate goal is for you to be able to play this song on your own, but there's no rush getting there.
I hope you've enjoyed this practice tune and that the extra bit of practice with the swing feel and the open string licks got you a little closer to being comfortable using those on your own. I also hope that it made sense to look at the relationship between the chord and melody note. It may be confusing because we're looking at each chord in a vacuum. When we look at the G chord for example, we're not thinking of the key of the song. We're purely examining the relationship between the melody note and the actual chord. I highly encourage you to try to be aware of this concept, when you're learning and arranging songs, because it'll help you so much in many ways. It'll help you recognize certain moves when you hear them, it'll help you arrange melodies more quickly, because you have certain voicings you know you can go to for it, and finally it'll help you in your own writing, because you'll know how certain melody notes create a certain magic in these very specific contexts.
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