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Old 01-16-2022, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by rllink View Post
An exercise I was doing a few months ago was to take a melody and reduce it to the least number of notes possible and still carry the tune, then fill the voids with chords. It was interesting how far you can go with it. A companion exercise was to take a song with complex chord progressions and see how many chords you could reduce it to and still carry the melody.
That sounds like an exercise you could learn a lot from, if you got that from a guitar teacher thats one a cut above the usual.
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