Using string skipping technique and jazz arpeggios to create complex melody lines.

By focusing simple melody making, we can achieve a multitude of phrasing ideas & variations.

Here is a melodic piece. It's important not to get carried away with technique and forget that music is about conveying a message. Melody is the main focus here. I tried to create a lead that would flow easily to the listener's ear. When trying to build something melodic, a good idea is to sing a melody on top of the chord progression you're working on and reproduce it on the instrument. That's usually how you can come up with new ideas.

Exercises & tips to play faster, based on this simple principle: Speed is a by-product of accuracy.

In our quest for percussive freedom, we will explore melody making: how to stack rhythm, bass & harmony with a melodic movement on top

Learn how to build chord progressions in Major Keys.

An arrangement of the previous chord melody lesson. We will explore the arrangement of the melody, how to make it more interesting.

This is an example of how to create a song using only chords and how to create a melody with those chord voicings.

Let's focus on phrasing by learning a "Sweet Melody"...