This lesson will teach you how to play measures 11 & 12 of the combined arrangement (solo) of Over the Rainbow. To listen to the whole song go to the COMBINED ARRANGEMENT TAB video. An essential part of any performance of an arrangement of a tune is that the melodic line should be heard clearly above the accompanying notes. Go to MELODY Measures 11 & 12 page to revise the melody for these measures. If you want to impress, let that melody fly Go to CHORDS Measures 11 & 12 page to revise the chords for these measures.
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Video Script:
In this guitar solo, the first note in these two measures is played by the
3rd finger, on the 3rd string, 5th fret
This note is then supported by the
1st finger, on the 4th string, 3rd fret
This note is an F, and is the root of the F chord which harmonises this measure of the tune
followed again by the
3rd finger, on the 3rd string, 5th fret
and then by another non melody note, the
1st finger, on the 2nd string, 3rd fret
Notice that we are using a bar with the left hand 1st finger
For the rhythm of these 4 melody notes count
1 an, 2 an
The Guitar Tabs on the bottom of the video screen will help you find where to place your left hand fingers
To complete the first of these two measures, play the original melody note with the
4th finger, on the 1st string, 5th fret
followed by a non melody note with the
1st finger, on the 1st string, 3rd fret
and finally, again the
4th finger, on the 1st string, 5th fret
For the rhythm of these 3 notes count
1, 2 an
For the rhythm of the melody in the full measure count
1 an, 2 an, 3, 4 an
to complete the measure in this acoustic guitar solo,
on the first beat of the second of these two measure, two notes are played at the same time
the 4th finger is placed on the 1st string, 3rd fret
the 2nd finger is placed on the 4th string, 2nd fret
the right hand thumb plays the 4th string and the right hand middle finger plays the 1st string
both notes are held for 4 beats
count 1, 2, 3, 4
This arrangement could as easily sit with the title of “Jazz chords lesson” or “classical guitar lesson” and be interesting to players from both genres.