UD#107 The Great Race to the Melody Note

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UD#107 The Great Race to the Melody
from Ukulele in the Dark with Guido Heistek


When we play chord melody style, we play both the chords and melody of a song at the same time. We often use a simple thumb strum through the chord that finishes on the melody note. One of the challenges of this is getting the timing right between the chord notes and the melody note. That’s something that I would like to focus on in today’s lesson!

For that purpose, I’ve written a short ukulele piece. 

Here is a recording of the song we will look at today. It’s called “Ode To UD#107.” 


>CLICK TO LISTEN TO “ODE for UD#107″<


You may hear that there is a second uke part playing harmonics. I’ll include the tablature for the harmonics part below and we can focus on that next lesson. Today we’ll focus on the main chord melody part. Here is the tablature.

>TAB for HARMONIC ACCOMPANIMENT PART “ODE TO UD#107″<


I made a little video about the timing of a the strum in chord melody. We practice starting the strum early so we can land on the melody note ON the beat instead of AFTER the beat. Hope it’s helpful.


That’s all for this lesson. I meant to include some mention of playing the chord with a finger-style roll, but I forgot! I’ll do harmonics next class and then the finger-style roll in a future lesson. Much to look forward to!

All the best in your playing,

Guido


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Guido Heistek holds a B.F.A. Music from Concordia University in Montreal and is a CANSTAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. He makes his home in Vancouver, BC.  Guido has performed in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe, and has worked as both an arranger and consultant for stage and film. Guido teaches private and small group lessons at his downtown studio: Yaletown Music . In 2011, Guido released Hear the Strum,  an instructional DVD which teaches ukulele students how to strum by ear and from the heart. In 2013 he released a CD, Guido Heistek – Solo Ukulele. In 2016, Guido released The Chord Melody Book for Ukulele.

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