Melody & Reading Guitar Tab

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MICHAEL PLUNKETT: Hello. This is Michael Plunkett on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to take a look at a new term right now, one that is often used in music called "melody." It can be used in two ways. First, you might hear melody in reference to the main notes of a song that somebody might sing. So, let's say, if you're humming a song in your head, it's probably the main melody or it's those notes. It can also be referred to when looking at tab. It's when we describe writing notes on tab that are in time-ordered sequence or basically, they're not on top of each other and when we look at harmony that will make more sense. So, in this case, I've written it out in melody. I have one note playing at a time. There's no overlapping here. So, if I'm going through time, I see I'm jumping many different strings, the melody can be on one string or many strings, and I'm playing different notes but not at the same time. So, if I were to read this, I've got 3, 2, 0, 1 to start with, and this is just an example. I'm playing one note at a time here and then the other one would be 3, 0, 0, 0. So, if I were to play the whole thing together, it would sound something like this. So we call that playing in melody when the notes are separated and timed from each other.

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