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Originally Posted by JonPR
Melody is the elephant in the room here (a pretty one, but still an elephant...  ). Chords should always follow a melody. The melody is in charge. No good messing around with all those fancy chords if they derail the melody. (Sorry, you're now getting an image of an elephant on a roller-coaster....  ) Melodies, of course, are free of those voice-leading strictures; the singer of the melody is not one of those lazy choristers. The melody will often jump huge steps (yep a pretty athletic elephant), but sparingly - jumps cause tension, which then needs releasing by smaller moves, usually in the opposite direction (I think that elephant is on a trampoline now...) |
Can we write the children's book for this?
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"Militantly left-handed."
Lefty Acoustics
Martin 00-15M
Taylor 320e Baritone
Cheap Righty Classical (played upside down ala Elizabeth Cotten)
Last edited by Kerbie; 08-29-2017 at 12:17 PM.
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