No Singer? Try a Melody Duet. :)

🎸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



👉 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

[bobby]

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

[gummikalli]

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.

[michaelzimmer]

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."

[angelovalerio]

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!

[MiracleMirror]

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

[commongrackle]

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.

[techdad]

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!

[Jacksalternate]

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

[neilbush]

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.

[michaeldionne]

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.

[chrisa]

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

[ByronUK]

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

[HappyChappy]

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

[dbuck]

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 Youtube, 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.

[paulwilson]

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....

[windrider]

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.

[samgee]

Sincere thanks. I keep coming back for more!

[nfa_]

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!

[Someone-lcdc]

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?

[MrTstring]

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