Simple, yet very beautiful melody ! Well done, David !
Thanks a lot my friend!
Thanks alot this is realy useful
Very useful David
Thx a lot
Thanks for adding a lesson for us beginners David! We REALLY appreciate them!!!!
Thank you!
cool lesson David! Beautiful and very useful!!
very useful lesson!
Nice topic, well done
great and very usefull lesson David, great job
Glad you are enjoying this. :-)
Gr8 lesson David. Its something I've been working into my playing as I'm not fluent at the more advanced techniques in my playing as of yet.
Very melodic lesson!
Nice and melodic lesson David
Cool lesson David !
Thanks guys! :-)
Very interesting insights David, great job!
Beautiful and very useful, David!
Awesome, David! Very nice lesson
Sounds nice!
Nice one David
Great approach. Nice one, David!
Excellent lead construction lesson!
Chord tones and arpeggios - sounds very familiar !
Cool lesson David
Another great lesson David!
Great and useful stuff David !
Getting into lead guitar and melody writing can be intimidating at first, there are so many scales and techniques available that the beginner player can feel quite intimidated. But things can be made easier if you cake a chordal approach to your lead. In other words, instead of playing in a scale to come up with a lead part, we'll simply play notes from the chords you are playing over. That will always work and always sound very good.
Let's take a look at the chord progression we'll be playing over:
A - G - F#m - E
D - C#m - Bm - E
A
Let's now try to come up with a melodic theme making sure stick to the chord you're phrasing over. Once you are comfortable with that exercise, you can experiment with additional notes within reach of the chord you are working with. Your ear should guide you in the choice of possible embellishments. This can work with any chord progression, no matter how complex the chords are and is always a great way to come up with themes you can remember.