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One of the ways you can start embellishing melodies is by varying the pickups to lines of the melody. In “Worried Man Blues” the vocal pickup is just one word/note: “it.” In this video, Lauren shows you how you can start varying the pickup rhythmically and melodically.
| “Keep on the Sunny Side,” Key of G |
| “Keep on the Sunny Side,” Key of G, Part 1: Melody |
Written in 1899 by Ada Blenkhorn with music by J. Howard Entwisle, “Keep on the Sunny Side” was first popularized by the Carter Family, who released their recording in 1928. The song was an enduring hit for the “first family of country music,” and it’s become a bluegrass and old-time music standard. The song gained some fresh attention in 2000, when The Whites’s performance was showcased in the Coen Brothers’ movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? In this video, Lauren walks you through the melody of the verse and chorus in the key of G.
Verse
There’s a dark and a troubled side of life
There’s a bright and a sunny side too
Though we meet in the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view
Chorus
Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life.
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way
If we keep on the sunny side of life.
| “Keep on the Sunny Side,” Key of G Notation (Available to subscribers) |
