Guitar thread.

Ok, this has nothing to do with my crush on my guitar teacher, but with guitar in general.

When you're learning a song from just chords, do you learn the chords, then the melody, and then just stick a few notes from the chords into the melody where they fit? or something else?

I'm working on "And I love her" for my lesson and I don't really know how to combine my chords and my solo stuff to make it one more unified song.

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Originally Posted by lovesjoyajm [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

When you're learning a song from just chords, do you learn the chords, then the melody, and then just stick a few notes from the chords into the melody where they fit?

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Something like that. It helps to learn the basic scales as well, this will help you construct a melody that fits on top of the chords. I also recommend to print out a note chart so you can see where all of the notes seat on the fret board, then you can pick the right notes when you play the lead.

Back when I played guitar more, I did almost everything by ear. Occasionally I would check out tabs and sometimes chords when I was trying to compose my own melodies.

Damnit.. now I am starting to want to play again. :(

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