This month, Ethan demonstrates a variety of melodic devices that can spice up a basic tune, including “enclosures” and “approach notes.” Each week you’ll learn a couple of strategies for approaching an essential melody note with additional tones and how to work those embellished phrases up and down the scale. In the final week, Ethan will show you how to apply these ideas to “Texas Gales,” a classic three-part fiddle tune in the key of C. In this video, Ethan introduces a set of “above and below” phrases in both diatonic and chromatic forms.
