Tips for Making Solo Arrangements

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Peter and Adam discuss making solo arrangements on tunes where the melody notes don't fit the chords.

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0:00.0	Jeff has a good question up here.
0:16.1	Any tips for making solo arrangements when there are melody notes?
0:20.2	How far up are we?
0:21.4	Pretty fairly far up, maybe halfway up. Jeff, the name, Jeff? I don't see Jeff. G-E-O-F. It's between a couple of Pickinstone and Joe Mascarra comments up here. I wonder if this is our friend, Jeff. Any tips on making solo arrangements when there are melody notes that don't fit the chords. Yeah. Thinking intro to tell me a bedtime story
0:39.3	or second to last bar of black narcissists.
0:45.1	How does that not melody?
0:46.6	Oh, okay.
0:47.3	So this, the beginning to...
0:52.5	A little cordy.
0:53.3	Put a little cordy up on there. A little cordy? Little cordy's not going to kill him kill him right okay so g major right this is an interesting thing because I never thought this was really outside of the court because of how it lies melodically yeah um let me take that off and then we can see.
1:11.2	Okay.
1:12.3	But I guess, you know, that's a, oh yeah, see, GNC.
1:18.6	No chord.
1:19.5	We're going to go buy some supplements.
1:21.0	Cordy doesn't ever.
1:22.6	So look at the shape.
1:24.2	This is my recommendation.
1:25.2	Look at the shape.
1:26.0	I just got that GNC.
1:28.4	Look at the shape of the melody, not just the shape of the chord.
1:31.8	Of course, we could go G major 13, sharp 11.
1:34.9	We could go G major 9, G major 9, you know, sharp 11.
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