I also always start with picking out the melody line. Say I want to play Ripple in G. I know the G scale. I know that the song has a pickup leading (if my words did glow) up to the first chord G. I know my G scale. I’ll strum a bit and get my pitch singing (or in my ear) to figure what note is the one thats gonna match the G chord for glow. Then its just a matter of starting below that note on the g scale to figure what the notes would be for the run up to “glow”. It comes together pretty easily.
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