Adam Rafferty《Simplicity》教学吉他谱.pdf

“SIMPLICITY” by Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson and Tabs “SIMPLICITY” Guitar Lesson and Tabs Introduction Greets Gang! Heres a lesson and tabs for an original song called Simplicity. I recorded this on my first solo CD Gratitude. If you are not familiar with it, and would like to like to hear the song, here’s the Youtube link. “Simplicity” on Youtube: /watch?v=APEyICMXFyI This was one of the first solo acoustic tunes I wrote….totally inspired by Tommy Emmanuel. I think youll hear his influence in this one. Behind that, theres a heavy JS Bach influence too! Im going to make the lesson brief, but helpful. The more you understand about the music, the easier it will be to actually play it. The fingers follow the brain. It’s Not Chords, It’s 3 Melody Lines Lets look at the parts before we get into the snarly guitar stuff, like the picking and fingerings. This way youll see how I am thinking. It may look like chord shapes as you play the tabs, but I heard this as 3 separate melody lines, interweaving. See this, and it will be 1000 times easier. (Tuning Low to High: D G D G B E) Example 1 - this is the basic melody inspiration Example 2 - this is a sequence of the melodic fragment, this is actually how I originally heard it after singing the first 3 notes Example 3 - this is the melody with counter melody….now there are 2 melodic lines Example 4 - heres the sequence idea with the counter melody Example 5 - same thing as before with a bass pedal point on the note G. When I got hold of this pretty musical idea, I started running it through different keys…and a tune was born. Youll see that the tune takes this idea through the keys of G major, E minor, G minor, and D major. The whole song is just simply based on this…hence the title, Simplicity. Now