Chapter 5
Playing Melodies in Position and in Double-Stops
IN THIS CHAPTER
Practicing single notes in position
Playing songs in position
Playing double-stops up, down, and across the neck
Practicing songs in double-stops
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One of the giveaways of beginning guitar players is that they can play only down the neck, in open position. As you get to know the guitar better, you’ll find you can use the whole neck to express your musical ideas. In the first part of this chapter, you venture out of open-position base camp into the higher altitudes of position playing.
The term double-stop doesn’t refer to going back to the store because you forgot the milk. It’s guitar lingo for playing two notes at the same time — something the guitar can do with relative ease but which is impossible on woodwinds. (Actually, guitarists lifted the term from violin playing but quickly made double-stops truly their own.) The second part of ...
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