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Melody construction.
Exercise 1
The image above shows what the music notation would look like for exercise 1. The notes and chords in
the key of D major are as follows: D Em F#m G A Bm C#dim
The illustration below shows the notes in the key of D major in the second position. This would be
starting at the 2nd fret. What you need to do is compare each note in the tablature below to the notes in the fretboard
illustration. Figure out want notes are being played. For example, in the tablature below the first note played is the
(5) this is the E note at the 5th fret.
What you need to do is play the 4 notes and then strum each chord in the illustration above. The first
chord is the D chord. Play the 4 notes in that measure and then strum the D chord. Do the same thing for each measure
and strum the indicated chord. The 4 chords you need to play are the D Bm G and Em chords. These chords have been shown
above. When you strum the chords above, notice how the notes being played in the tablature sound nice. Notice that the
chords being played are a sixth note apart.
D to B /B to G /G to E. The next chord you could play after the Em would be the
C#dim.
All of this is what you call melodic patterns. You can come up with an almost infinite amount of
different melodic patterns.
Let's look at one more example. For our first pattern, I will pick 4 notes at random in the key of D major. For our first pattern, say we
pick the D F# E D notes. This will be our main idea to build on. From here, we increase each note by a 3rd.
This melodic pattern will be in 3rds.
Once again the notes in the key of D major are: D E F# G A B C# - D E F# G A B C# D.
Our 1st main melodic pattern will have these notes (D F# E D). Now we must create the next pattern. To
do this we increase our first pattern by a 3rd for each note. So if we increase each note in our first melodic
pattern, we would have the notes of our second pattern. (F# A G F#). Now we need to create our next pattern. We
increase each of the previous notes by a 3rd. (A C# B A). Then we repeat this again. (C# E D C#). So far we have 4
melodic patterns. (D F# E D) (F# A G F#) (A C# B A) (C# E D C#). We can now put these in tablature form.
Like I said, you can come up with an endless amount of melodic patterns using this technique. If your
interested in learning more about this, I have invented a very easy technique to accomplish this. I call it my secret
technique to creating melodies and scale runs. By using my technique, you can come up with your own melodies and scale runs
with easy step by step instructions. It has been included on our Instructional CD ROM, A
Visual Learning Experience.
This lesson just touched on melodic patterns and could go on forever. You need to learn the notes and
chords of each scale and lay them out on a blank fretboard. Once you do this you can visualize each chord and scale
pattern. Pick a few notes out of the scale and increase each by a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or what ever. Mix them up and transpose them to
different keys. Eventually you will build up an enormous amount of patterns you can call up and play without even
thinking about it.
Good luck,
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