Do This To Write Better Melodies on Guitar

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6qrmVbtUWk

摘要

TLDRThis video lesson explains how to create better guitar melodies by focusing on highlighting the chords in your chord progression rather than strictly adhering to a key's scale. The instructor emphasizes that many traditional methods can sound robotic and lack emotional depth. Instead, by understanding and using chord shapes around the fretboard, musicians can craft melodies that evoke feelings and take listeners on a journey. The lesson breaks down the importance of suspensions and embellishments in chords to enhance the emotional quality of melodies. Additionally, it introduces an online course titled 'Remarkable Melodies' that offers in-depth techniques for writing compelling guitar melodies.

心得

  • 🎶 Focus on chords instead of scales for better melodies.
  • 🔑 Highlight chord shapes around the fretboard.
  • 🎸 Use suspensions and embellishments for emotional impact.
  • 📜 Understand your chord progressions deeply.
  • 🎵 Analyze melodies to see how they relate to chords.
  • 💡 Experiment with different voicings of the same chord.
  • 📝 Take advantage of online courses for detailed learning.

时间轴

  • 00:00:00 - 00:09:27

    In this segment, the speaker discusses the traditional approach to melody writing, which involves sticking strictly to the scale of a given key. This often results in melodies that feel robotic and lack emotional depth. A better approach, according to the speaker, is to focus on highlighting the chords within a chord progression to create more expressive melodies. They introduce a melody from their song "Salvation" and emphasize how the melody closely follows the chords, creating a sense of journey and emotion.

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视频问答

  • What is the main focus for creating better guitar melodies?

    Highlighting chords of your chord progression instead of just playing within a scale.

  • Why do traditional methods of using scales often sound robotic?

    They tend to lack emotional depth and create melodies that feel static and unmotivated.

  • What is a sus4 chord?

    A suspended fourth chord that creates tension leading to a resolved harmony.

  • How can I effectively learn to create melodies?

    By taking a course that focuses on melody creation techniques and theory.

  • What is the name of the online course mentioned?

    The course is called 'Remarkable Melodies'.

  • What will I learn in the 'Remarkable Melodies' course?

    You'll learn about motifs, melody structures, embellishments, and how to balance curves in melodies.

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    hey my friend today let's explore how to
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    make better
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    melodies on guitar because what i don't
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    like of most guitar teachers
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    teaching beginners on how to write their
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    own melodies
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    they will say you have to identify the
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    key
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    of your song and then create your melody
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    in the scale of that same key so if my
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    key is
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    c major i should create my melody using
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    the c major scale
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    [Music]
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    that way i make sure that i don't play
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    any wrong notes and these are all the
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    right notes that are going to fit on my
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    key
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    but what i don't like with this method
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    is that it creates melodies
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    that do not tell a story that don't go
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    anywhere and most of the times it just
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    sounds
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    robotic or like an exercise or like
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    noodling in a scale it's gonna sound
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    somewhat like this
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    like it's it's not making me feel
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    anything it's not going anywhere it's
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    just tension and resolutions inside of
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    the same scale
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    there's actually a much better way to
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    approach making melodies
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    so instead of focusing too much on the
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    scale of your key
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    focus on highlighting the chords of your
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    chord progression
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    so how can you do that you just have to
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    identify chord shapes around your
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    fretboard
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    and play around those to make your
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    melodies so to show you how to do that
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    we're going to play
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    a melody and analyze it of one of my
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    recent songs
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    called salvation so i'm gonna play it
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    here but if you wanna hear the whole
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    song i'm gonna put a
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    upper card here so the melody goes
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    like this
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    [Applause]
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    [Music]
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    so that melody brings you through a
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    journey right it's night and day
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    compared to
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    [Applause]
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    [Music]
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    right it's because i highlight the chord
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    so let's
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    analyze what's happening here just the
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    beginning of the melody
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    if you're looking at this
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    what does it look like just by looking
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    at it
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    it's an a minor chord an a minor bar
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    chord from the fifth string so i'm
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    highlighting exactly the notes of my a
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    minor chord here
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    and then i stay here and the next chord
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    is an f chord
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    so you see i'm highlighting the third
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    of my f major chord and then the fifth i
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    have a little passing note
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    which is not in my chord but it's just
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    in sandwich between both
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    and then the rest of the melody
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    once again the chord underneath it is a
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    g chord
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    [Music]
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    [Applause]
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    so i'm staying very close to the chord
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    so you see just by analyzing the first
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    three chords and the notes that are on
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    top you can see that my melody
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    follows the chords really closely and
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    because of that
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    even if i don't play my melody with the
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    backing track
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    at the bottom you can still feel the in
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    the chords that are implied underneath
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    just by playing this
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    like you feel the chords just by the
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    melody itself
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    and that's a sign of a good melody
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    so you see you can find in my case i
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    could have
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    played at so many places if i want to
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    highlight for example my a minor chord
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    i could have played here or maybe here
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    or maybe here
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    or here like i did
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    so your first job is to identify many
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    chord shapes all around the fretboard to
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    make sure that you can play your melody
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    in a
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    range where it fits the best on top of
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    your
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    your backing track or your band or
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    anything you're playing on top of
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    and it helps a lot but now if you want
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    to go a little bit further
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    you can not only highlight the chords
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    but highlight the cool movements
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    or suspensions or embellishments in your
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    chords
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    so as you can see in my chord
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    progression in the backing track i
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    played many many chords
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    with sus4 suspensions on them
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    so we're gonna go through really quickly
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    on the the chord progression on the song
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    it's a a minor and then f
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    g and then c sus4
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    that results on c then we've got a minor
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    then we've got e sus4 that results on e
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    minor
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    then we got d minor g sus4
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    that results on g and then d minor again
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    f and g and we go back to the top
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    so you see i have three times in this
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    song a sus4 suspension on my chords on
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    the c
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    [Music]
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    on the e minor and on the g
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    so i made sure in my melody to highlight
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    that little
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    sus4 suspension that results on the
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    chord
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    all the times because that's the best
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    movement to highlight in your chords
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    to to make to to make the listeners feel
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    the chords and the harmony through the
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    melody
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    so on top of the c
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    i play this
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    so you really hear the the correlation
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    between
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    [Music]
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    [Applause]
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    right so that's highlighted in the
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    melody to on the on top of the
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    e sus4 i played
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    so i highlighted in the melody the this
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    the four suspension
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    the sus4 suspension then i resolved on
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    the fifth of the chord
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    and back down to the minor third of the
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    chord
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    to replicate it
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    [Music]
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    and on top of the g i play this
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    so you see each time i highlighted the
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    little
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    embellishment on top of my chords so if
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    you want to go further and you want your
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    melodies to be more
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    emotional in this way you can highlight
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    the chords
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    and it doesn't have to be sus4 it could
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    be sus2
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    sus4 any kind of suspensions or
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    tensions or extensions in your course
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    that you
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    want to highlight at a certain spot in
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    your melody
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    you can do it so you see the principle
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    how you can
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    go have a melody that goes somewhere
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    compared to just
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    sticking to the same scale
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    so promise me that when you want to
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    write melody follow the chords instead
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    of sticking to the scale
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    all the time and if you enjoy this
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    little lesson
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    and you want to go further and you want
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    to learn how can i follow the chords
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    how can i create beautiful melodies on
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    guitar
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    this week i released and i launched my
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    brand new
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    online course on guitar melodies that's
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    called remarkable
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    melodies and until tomorrow night at
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    midnight
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    i have a special offer on on the lounge
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    of the course
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    uh so you can check it out first link in
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    the description box
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    after tomorrow i'm gonna close
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    enrollments to
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    focus and love on my existing students
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    and then i'm
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    going to reopen the course at full price
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    in a few
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    weeks so if you're watching this live
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    you can click in the description box
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    to learn more about it if you're into
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    melodies in this course
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    we go super in depth i show you how to
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    create great
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    motifs and how to balance the curve and
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    the contour of your melody we're seeing
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    embellishments and phrasings and melody
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    structures
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    and seven powerful ways to expand on
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    your motifs
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    and we're writing chord melodies and
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    like it's
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    fully packed with awesome stuff on
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    melodies
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    so i hope that you will check it out if
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    you are into melodies and you want to
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    write
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    better melodies so thank you very much
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    for watching and until next time
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