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Cry me a River Combined Arrangement Guitar Measures 3 & 4

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This lesson will teach you how to play measures 3 & 4 of the Combined Arrangement Guitar version of Cry me a River. To listen to the Guitar Tab for the whole song go to the COMBINED ARRANGEMENT GUITAR 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 the MELODY Measures 3 & 4 page to revise the melody for these measures. If you want to impress, let that melody fly! Go to the CHORDS Measures 3 & 4 page to revise the chords for these measures.

Video Script:

In this combined arrangement for solo guitar performance, for the the first note in these two measures, place the

1st finger, on the 5th string, 5th fret

play this note with the right hand thumb

this is a D note, and the root of the harmonising chord, Dm

the next four notes are from the melody we have already learned

The Guitar Tabs on the bottom of the video screen will help you find where to place your left hand fingers

these melody notes are then followed by 3 notes from the harmonising G7 chord

a G note is played by the

2nd finger, on the 4th string, 5th fret

a B note is played by the

1st finger, on the 3rd string, 4th fret

an F note is played by the

4th finger, on the 2nd string, 6th fret

for the rhythm of this measure

count 1 an, 2 an, 3 an, 4 an

for the first note in the second of these two measures, play the

1st string open

this note is from the original melody

follow this with the

3rd finger, on the 5th string, 3rd fret

a C note, the root of the harmonising C chord

and then two notes together

the 3rd string open

and the 2nd string open

and then again the

1st string open

the only note here that is not part of the basic C chord triad is the open B, which is an extension to the C chord

to complete this in this acoustic guitar solo play the

3rd string, at the 1st fret, with the first finger

followed by the

1st string open

and then the

2nd string, at the 4th fret, with the first finger

and finally the 1st string open

these last 3 notes are from the original melody

for the rhythm of this measure

count 1 an, 2 an, 3 an, 4 an

This arrangement could as easily sit with the title of “Jazz guitar arrangement” or “classical guitar arrangement” and be interesting to players from both genres.

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