Now it's time to review, assemble and practice our instrumental piece.
Let's practice this whole song, section-by-section, nice and slowly! This is really where you can set yourself up for success when it comes to performing, because there's a big difference between knowing something just well enough that you can play along with me and knowing something so well that you can almost do it in your sleep. Playing this piece over and over again is the only way to get to that point, and having done that will help you so much when you're nervous.
Guitar Fundamentals 2, 5. Review Song: Steppin’ Out
Anders,
In previous lessons, you mentioned the use of root bass notes and chordal tones to compose melodies to accompany chords. In this lesson, I have questions concerning measures 5 and 6.
For measure 5, a D note is played before the A minor chord. Is there a rule/technique behind the selection of the D note preceding the A minor?
Fo measure 6, an E note is played before the G major chord. Is there a rule/technique behind the selection of the E note preceding the G major?
Thank you, Stan
Mike Olekshy1 week ago
Hello - thanks so much for your questions! Indeed, one approach is to be mindful of chord tones to create melodies, but that is not imperative, as you can see in the review song. There is not any specific rule or technique that is being followed - other than the song is in the key of C major, and the single notes leading to the chords you mentioned are notes that come from the C major scale. It is simply the composer's choice to come up with melodies they want to hear. Hope this helps!
