Learn how to combine chords and melody to play jazz standards in the style pioneered by jazz mandolinist Jethro Burns and guitarists like Joe Pass and Bucky Pizzarelli.
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Chord Melody Basics, Part 2: Picking-Hand Technique
Your fretting hand determines the notes you’re playing but your picking hand determines how those notes (and chords) are articulated. Aaron shows you how to create different sounds with the two progressions you learned in Part 1 by separating the chord and melody notes in different rhythmic ways, for example, playing the melody note before the full chord, or the bass note before the full chord. He also demonstrates how you can combine these approaches to give your chord melody performance some rhythmic variety.
Here's our Fiddle Styles Workshop host and instructor, Brittany Haas, playing one of her original compositions, "Down The Hatch" on July 5, 2014, part of the Vero Beach International Music Festival, at First Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach, FL. Brittany is joined by The Advancing Mandolinist instructor Joe Walsh and her talented sister, Natalie Haas.