No Singer? Try a Melody Duet. :)

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No Singer? Try a Melody Duet. :)

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🎸In this lesson, you'll learn how to play any melody on the acoustic guitar. This sounds great, and it's an awesome duet trick - especially when you don't have a singer! #justinguitar #guitarforbeginners #justinguitargrade3
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👉 Video Chapters
00:00 5 Steps to Learn Melodies
01:50 Step #1 - Listen Up
02:38 Step #2 - Know the Chords First
04:07 Step #3 - Open or Closed?
04:59 Step #3 - Starting Note
05:48 Step #4 - Write Out
06:20 How to Choose Easy Songs
09:01 3 Bonus of Playing Melodies
11:28 Song #1 - Let It Be
13:09 Song #2 - House of The Rising Sun
14:15 Song #3 - Hallelujah
14:51 Song #4 - Ain't No Sunshine
15:32 Song #5 - Three Little Birds
16:15 Song #6 - Breakfast at Tiffany's
17:15 Song #7 - Yellow
17:35 Song #8 - Wish You Were Here
18:59 More Advanced Tips & Tricks
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@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

*This lesson is from my new (and free!) Beginner Guitar - GRADE 3. Find more here:* www.justinguitar.com/classes/beginner-guitar-course-grade-three

@bobby9642 2 жыл бұрын

The magic about this guy is whenever i want to learn something to improve, he always comes up with the right topic at the right time 😭😭..thank you very much sir

@caris32 2 жыл бұрын

so true!!!

@erikhendrickson59 2 жыл бұрын

He has done ssssooo much for the online guitar community....and it's basically ALL available FOR FREE. What a guy?

@techdad5606 2 жыл бұрын

Even though I finished your beginners course a few years ago, you keep adding awesome content that is so helpful to even intermediate players. Thank you!

@commongrackle 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! This is the exact process I've been using to learn to sing more difficult songs, by tabbing them out on guitar first. Then I can play through the tab as a quick reference, rather than searching through the audio file for the right part, which tightens up my feedback loop for learning to sing it.

@angelovalerio1969 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Justin! This is magic. I don't think "The Ventures" back in the 60s and 70s ever sang a song. They made a whole career of exactly this melody playing as I'm sure you know. Cheers!

@gummikalli2 Жыл бұрын

I've been doing this for a long time without realizing the benefits. When I don't know what to play or if I'm just noodling on front of the TV I'll do this without thinking. Thanks for the lesson. I've learned a huge amount of things from your videos.

@Jacksalternate1 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful lesson and just what I was needing to stay motivated! Thank you, Justin!

@neilbush9873 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. I m encouraged to practise scales again. at 59sh I began to play banjo, playing melody as my aging fisherman/ shearers hands are so slow at learning to get chords . As i progress i often guess the chords by the melody . So thankful for singing in school and now church.

@chrisa3961 2 жыл бұрын

the thing I struggle most with. so this year I want to learn this! thank you Justin, you are the best!

@MiracleMirror117 2 жыл бұрын

That House of the rising sun at the beginning was such a banger. Bless you Justin.

@HappyChappy50 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic lesson. Just what I needed to take my playing to the next level. Thank you Justin 👍

@windrider65 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic as always Justin. Thank you for sharing all these lessons with us. Take care of yourself and your family and stay safe. From Charlie in the States.

@michaeldionne3139 2 жыл бұрын

Figuring out song melodies on guitar is what I do most on guitar. Steve Winwood's Can't Find My Way Home is one of the first full songs that I figured out. I am still building on the little nuances of the vocals on electric and acoustic guitar. Thanks for this video! I always thought my efforts were not what real guitarists did.

@samgee2275 2 жыл бұрын

Sincere thanks. I keep coming back for more!

@paulwilson1110 2 жыл бұрын

Great, new for me, to practice and improve all round. Can't believe I've not done this before....and I'm 65!!!! Thanks, loved it....

@nfa06_ 2 жыл бұрын

Its honest people in different industries like Justin who makes life on earth interesting and hopeful whenever I read bad and hopeless activities humans do here. Bless you and your loved ones Justin! you set a role model!

@ByronUK 2 жыл бұрын

Very timely, I was actually doing this today. Listening to the second solo part of Wish you Were Here and trying to learn it by ear. I managed to do it. I surprised myself

@jackievandekauter819 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Justin for this lesson . It was the missing part in my starting for learning to play the melody of the song . I am a 75j old beginner player from Belgium . And as you as said it is very defucult to find tabs for a song on the internet. So like you said I will start to fond the notes in a open position. Dank u wel Justin !

@MrT6string 2 жыл бұрын

Really useful lesson and a real eye opener! Cheers Justin👍

@mathru86 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely necessary one for many guitar players who may not be good with vocals 👌❤️💐

@drewdietz2115 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant lesson, thanks once again Justin

@Adrian041392 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Lesson! Thank you!

@riffsandpics 2 жыл бұрын

This is just what I needed! Thanks!

@tommyjohn_45 2 жыл бұрын

Pumped for this one!

@Auspure Жыл бұрын

You are the best Justin. Thank you so much

@michaelzimmer1115 4 ай бұрын

I found out decades ago that I could figure out the melody better in context of playing chords (open usually). Why? I don't know for sure, but maybe because the melody contained notes from the underlying chord, reducing in effect the "search space."

@parijansubedi 2 жыл бұрын

loved it!!!!

@johnclark1000 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff!

@FITforaKING777 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Justin, I appreciate you.

@sundar5537 2 жыл бұрын

hi. justin, its a lengthy but very clear n useful explanation. thanks n best wishes..

@robinalves8314 Жыл бұрын

So useful ! Flawless

@richardfox1605 Жыл бұрын

Love that rendition of House Of The Rising Sun

@brendachristopher2693 2 жыл бұрын

That's an important message on your shirt, thank you. Thank you for your great tutorials.

@marilynblandford7091 2 жыл бұрын

Love the lesson. And your t-shirt.

@behzadbahrami3699 9 ай бұрын

Marvelous video❤

@AvaRose00 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson! This is when a looper pedal would come in handy…

@Sensmitter 2 жыл бұрын

A good idea. Thank you. 👋

@moham_bm6009 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Justin 👍👍👍👌

@nowhereman7813 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, and no posing or posturing like the home of the brave / land of the free

@stephanguitar9778 2 жыл бұрын

Love the polite 'rhythmic melody' a euphemism for ' no melody'

@augustdaye2746 2 жыл бұрын

It's great ear training to learn the intervals of a melody you 'thought' you already know. (I know that melody. I can play it. Easy. Oh, wait, that's not right. Hmm.) Wish I had done it a long long time ago.

@dbuck5350 Жыл бұрын

This is the only way I play guitar now. I just could not master chords and strumming, and I haven't mastered playing melodies one note at a time, but I am so much better at that than anything else on guitar. I learn them off KZfaq, one phrase at a time. It is fun and interesting, especially figuring out the easiest finger movements to hit the right notes, or moving it around on the fret board.

@hwanglee3330 Жыл бұрын

Why I find it becomes difficult to use key even?

@pemical35uk 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Justin ,Another interesting video, I will give this a go. At present I play simple melodies from top line fake books. first four frets or frets 8 to 12 . I can play hundreds of songs this way. but never actually learning the songs by memory. My idea was that if i can do this with ease, using embellishments i will make the simple melody sound good and interesting. I am now not sure if this is possible .I would really appreciate your thoughts on my "method" Cheers Mike

@beeboy772 Жыл бұрын

Cool bro

@generationxxx7965 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you...

@mikeraidos 2 жыл бұрын

Νice my friend! 💯👌👍💯 🎸🤘🎸🤘💪😉

@dougnice67 5 ай бұрын

I haven’t even finished watching and I know this is a great lesson

@andy_frags5388 2 жыл бұрын

That acoustic sounds so beautiful

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@JTPMcC 2 жыл бұрын

I do love trying to find melodies on guitar and I the first song I tried to learn was I Do I Do I Do by ABBA. Took me a while but got there. Another good ABBA song is Fernando. They’re mostly on the g b and high e strings. In the open position. Thanks for the lesson. I did work out Molly’s Lips,by Nirvana on my own 😁 The chords not melody.

@andrewholden2424 6 ай бұрын

Mamma Mia is a good one to try btw

@karlbridge5844 2 жыл бұрын

A great idea for my new looper pedal :-) i don't have enough time in the day

@Someone-lc6dc 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Justin, would you be able to prepare some lessons on how to make arrangements for guitar where you combine the melody and rhythm on one guitar?

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

For that, it would really help if you tackle the lessons of grade 7 www.justinguitar.com/classes/advanced-guitar-course-grade-seven. These cover some concepts that are crucial foundations to fluently think of chords and melodies at once. If that is beyond you at this time, it will be harder but you will at least know the basics of how scales and chords work. | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant

@MrA1582000 2 жыл бұрын

Love your tee shirt. Great lesson, hard for a tone deaf person.

@selsdon500 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson Justin...btw where did you get that cap from ?...Love it

@badscrew4023 2 жыл бұрын

Oh no, what now - we need to LISTEN? HERESY 🤣 great lesson :)

@user-tx8uc3iw3w 2 жыл бұрын

This could be just what the doctor ordered .. looking forward to checking this out .. Cheers Justin ... T 🎸 🇮🇪 😎

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

yeah! hope it is :) cheers!

@user-tx8uc3iw3w 2 жыл бұрын

@@justinguitar That was a very video ... very enjoyable .. very interesting & very educational ... thanks again .. hope you have very weekend :)

@shaunyd92 2 жыл бұрын

Great guitar tuition justin, what guitar are you playing buddy?

@tombryan1 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that intro. I would buy a cut of that song from you.

@krioyu 2 жыл бұрын

love your lessons very much I'm wondering to ask is it possible to add Chinese on your app?

@neilbush9873 2 жыл бұрын

So generous to use the word melody for one note. I call it rhythmic poetry

@chrisa933 2 жыл бұрын

Very interested in this, would love to be able to play anything just by picking it up, Struggling with Fingerpicking at the moment, this could help

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Did u check this out? It might help u! www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/rolling-chords-to-spice-up-your-fingerstyle-bg-1603

@chrisa933 2 жыл бұрын

@@justinguitar good man , I'll check this out, 👌

@ianday38 2 жыл бұрын

House of the rising sun is the first (and only) song that falls out of my fingers every time I pick up my guitar. I had plans today but now I'm going to have to play guitar all day instead 😀

@joelkabongo2515 Жыл бұрын

Hey Justin , I’m tryna to learn chord but it’s very hard for me and I don’t see any improvement in my chords but when I get into scales , it’s way more easier and i get better quickly, do u suggest me to focus and scales rn and come back to chord later or anything else? Ty

@shauntackett4497 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this lesson!! Thank you for all your help. I was really hoping you’d touch on Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton. You did inspire me to challenge myself to figure it out today.

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

This might help! It's an older lesson but we explore its key! www.justinguitar.com/songs/eric-clapton-wonderful-tonight-chords-tabs-guitar-lesson-bs-906

@shauntackett4497 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Justin. I’m working are on that one. It’s easy to play but challenging to play the Melody.

@hendrikwitt7375 2 жыл бұрын

@@shauntackett4497 if you want to play it try out the fingerstyle version. i think the channel was named fingerstyle club or some like that its a lil challenging at first but sounds beautiful.

@krijn. 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video, can you do On Every Street by Dire Straits some day?

@chrisa933 2 жыл бұрын

U make it look so easy🤦‍♂️ Currently Tring this now with , linkin park NUMB, An It works, with a little time I reckon I could Fingerpick my own version of this 👊

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Happy trails dude! Have fun :)

@georgeharoutunian2145 2 жыл бұрын

I cant believe after all these years I am still in grade 3!

@DamnDealDone 2 жыл бұрын

Johnny Flynn's cover of Amsterdam from the film Stardust (2020). I would love a tutorial.

@juditharmstrong6267 2 жыл бұрын

Hi can you show us how you strum like that please for 3 little birds. Or is there a lesson some where. Many thanks

@Rickman165 2 жыл бұрын

insane lesson thank u

@Alex_U 2 жыл бұрын

Sneaky Justin trying to get us into transcribing😁

@milij8376 2 жыл бұрын

Really struggling with this lesson. Got the chords and strumming down to a tee but can't seem to get my head around this.

@tanyushmusic 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for the video, is there a tutorial on you channel about how to adapt the melody's tonality to fit your voice? say when it is too high or too low. (I am a beginner) I assume some people use a capo for that, which can also help to manage to reach some more complex chords (with small hands), yet I don't know yet a lot about capo and arrangements.

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

There are a few lessons on capo's you can check: www.justinguitar.com/advanced_search?q=capo There is one specifically about matching your voice | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant

@tanyushmusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@justinguitar thank you! Will check it out

@tonywhetham8165 2 жыл бұрын

I think that Chet Atkins said when in doubt, play the melody when improvising.

@racegrubb2152 Жыл бұрын

What about thank you by Chris Cornell, I cant sing so I want to sing with the guitar over the loop play

@me-fv5xb 2 жыл бұрын

I would just find tabs thats been transcribed into fingerstyle. My guitar sings😀. Great lesson on fingerstyle on Justin's website if anyone interested

@mtndmtnd Жыл бұрын

🌾💐🍀🌹🎉❤

@frankammiro3224 Жыл бұрын

Are you sure that this lesson is also located on the web site? I tried looking through all the Beginner Grade 3 lessons, and didn't see any with a matching name "No Singer - Try a Melody Duet". It's probably under another name, but I can't find it. Any clues? What module number is it in?

@justinguitar Жыл бұрын

Hi - it is grade 3 Module 16: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/how-to-play-a-melody-on-guitar-bg-1605 Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher

@ShadowD2C 2 жыл бұрын

great lesson, just a question . is it better to find the melody on on strings first or chords?? for example for hallelujah. the melody on a string is G to A which is moving up one tone but the chords are C to Am which is down tow tones, is kinda confusing for me

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

The exact melody will be on single notes while the chords of the key use several notes of that key at once. That doesn't mean you can only play notes of the chord you can play over. by default, the notes of the key will always work over the chord but some will work better than others. If you want to know how that works: check out this lesson about diatonic chords: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/chords-in-a-key-diatonic-triads-mt-421

@ShadowD2C 2 жыл бұрын

@@justinguitar thanks

@riverthecat 9 ай бұрын

Are the words of the song following the melody..?

@kmgreensman 2 жыл бұрын

Man that guitar sounds good! Is that a Froggy Bottom?

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

yes! More info on Justin's guitars: www.justinguitar.com/modules/justins-guitars | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant

@herrunsinn774 2 жыл бұрын

You know, Justin... after a few more tries, you might just get this whole video creation thing down. Ha ha.... Just kidding of course... Your vids feel so natural and (as such) are so easy to follow, regardless of the viewer's skill level. Love your work!

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed! :) haha! Thank you - have a great weekend!

@VdonShayo 2 жыл бұрын

Please what is the name of the first time you were playing

@factorjay2100 2 жыл бұрын

House of the rising sun

@pruthvikarnik1911 Жыл бұрын

Alr, I don't know if I'll get this😭 Will keep trying tho😭

@kevindelk 2 жыл бұрын

I've always had trouble playing the entire lyrics on guitar.

@miguelpanta 2 жыл бұрын

how to record this?

@lamareskin Жыл бұрын

Ok so a question, the few notes that are played outside of the chord, how am i supposed to know if I’m allowed to play them or not? Is it based on the major scale or the key? How do i know? Because before this video i thought you’re only allowed to play notes that are just in the chords, at least for a beginner Please someone answer :)

@justinguitar Жыл бұрын

There are two fundamentals to use as a guide here. [1] If it sounds good it is god. [2] Use the scale of the key. If the chord progression is in the key of C major, use notes from the C major scale. Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher

@lamareskin Жыл бұрын

@@justinguitar thank you so much and thanks for your amazing videos :)

@imreszabo4256 2 жыл бұрын

You just can't go wrong with a Beatles song!

@8xster8 2 жыл бұрын

The reverse seems so much harder. The rhythm chords he played at the beginning seems impossible to figure out by ear vs the melody

@ryanh4975 Жыл бұрын

Can you teach us the vocal melody for Rap God by Eminem.

@emresimsek7394 Жыл бұрын

thats too hard

@kkaggrey 2 жыл бұрын

does anyone have an idea what kind of guitar he's playing?

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

It's a Froggy Bottom custom guitar. More info on Justin's guitars here: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/justin-s-guitars-list-and-info-gg-001| LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant

@mrunalinitumane 2 жыл бұрын

M looking for guitar ..plz name this guitar!

@vinniebate2981 2 жыл бұрын

Now be Chet Atkins and play both at the same time. guy was nuts

@Abhishek-fe3zs 2 жыл бұрын

My teacher made me play all the major scales and we did melodies and rhythm before the chords

@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

😅

@Abhishek-fe3zs 2 жыл бұрын

@@justinguitar yeah but that was a long time ago. Thanks for responding!

@johnegan4762 10 ай бұрын

Gospel.

@QBRX 2 жыл бұрын

Can't you can sing or play a melody in any key. My go to is the key of C because it has no sharps or flats. Work it out in C then change to the right key later if you want.

@gristamshackleford2102 2 жыл бұрын

justin im sorry this is a great lesson but last module the transcribing lesson was very simple power chord songs then you went to this?!?! it doesnt seem to fit in the order of things. i cannot do it at all and im way beyond beginner level player. i mean maybe you shouldve talked us through how do it with some cheesy songs like london bridges or something. i'm not Esteban i cant figure out rising sun melody for the life of me......im not sure but it seems like intervals are more important than specific notes? anyhow i cant post for this video on the website for some reason so i came here

@TheTimeProphet 2 жыл бұрын

I find it difficult to hear the melody in my head, and even when I do, as soon as I hit the note on the guitar it ruins the melody in my head.

@michaelzimmer1115 4 ай бұрын

One thing that can happen is misheard or mis-remembered melodies. Often enough, you will find that your recollection of a melody is not spot-on when going back to the original.