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By Andrew DuBrock | Acoustic Rock Nuts

The goal of good fingerpicking accompaniment is to support the song y'all're playing the best you tin. Short fills betwixt vocal lines, similar the 1 inExample ix, can exist a nice contrast to directly pattern picking.

During intros, interludes, and instrumental sections, you lot may have a melody or fill up in listen that you desire to play along with the accompaniment. The key is to know the melody y'all want and construct the accessory accordingly. For instance, let's take the rhythmic melody line inExample 10, which uses rhythms like to James Taylor's "Country Road," and add together a fill up on the end. Nosotros could add bass notes on the beat, every bit inExample 11, but this sounds a bit stiff, and so permit's endeavor post-obit the chords more than closely, playing a bass note with each chord, as in Instance 12. It'southward still a bit underwhelming—I often find that bass lines sound all-time when they're rhythmically independent from the melody, only accent the melody past coming together at key points, as inInstance 13. Here, every note in the bass is played independently of the melody except during the resolve to the A chord on the and of beat two, just before the fill.

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