This will enable me to fit the chord voicings we covered earlier underneath the melody line on the guitar. So, let’s now play the melody horizontally on the fretboard like this: It’s going to be hard to fit chords underneath some of those notes. Let’s take a look at a short melody that I came up with below. If you don’t have a melody, you can’t have a chord melody.įor chord melody on guitar, it’s important to be able to play melodies horizontally on the fretboard. Ingredient #2 – Single Line Melodies and Licks Playability is the key.įor example, here are some chord shapes I enjoy using for chord melody that could be used for a C Major chord: I tend to pick a voicing that is the most playable out of the available options – even if it’s missing some of the chord tones to represent the chord. You can save a lot of time when starting out to be selective in the chord voicings in your ‘playbook’ – it makes the topic of chord melody far more manageable. Many jazz guitar chord voicings sound very similar to each other. If you read something like Ted Greene’s Chord Chemistry, you would be forgiven for thinking you need to know at least 200 million chord shapes before you qualify to play a jazz guitar chord melody. This is where a student can become quickly overwhelmed though… You need a good stock of chord voicings available to you if you are going to harmonize a melody with chords. Chord Melody Guitar Ingredient # 1 – Chord Voicings
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