Sound easy? It’s not too difficult, but you are exercising a completely different skill, trying to play through this arrangement, than you are trying to learn how to play the D, Bminor, G and A chords. The melody fills the break with the line that leads in to the chorus, “Darl-in, Darl-in”ĥth time: Everyone plays the bassline again. This time the bassline and the chords STOP on the downbeat of the last bar. Chord group start the chords, Melody group start the verse melody.ģrd time: continue with 2nd part of verse melody. For our arrangement of the song we play the 8-bar section 5 times:Ģnd time: Bassline group continues bassline. This song has 3 different groups of players: For example, lets take our arrangement of “Stand By Me”.
“Form” means how the larger sections of the music work. But soon you have to try to break out of that and learn something with a longer form. Of course, you have to start playing this way. As we have been working on the arrangements of the songs, I’ve been realising that in the beginning of your playing career it’s easy to get stuck playing “riffs” and bits of songs here and there, a 4 chord loop played a few times, then on to the next thing.
They will be playing a few of the pieces they have learned in groups, ranging from 5 to 30 players in size. The idea for this post came from the fact that my students are currently practicing for a recital. The last post ended with a video of me playing “I Thought About You” on a nylon-string acoustic guitar – which hopefully I made sound more expensive than it actually is.