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🎸 Combining Melody & Chords with "Hallelujah"
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In today’s new lesson, I teach melody deep-dive for Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah — showing you a way to play the melody notes and chords at the same time. This makes for an incredibly satisfying way to play this amazing song, as it allows you to capture the recognizable melody line in a way that sounds bigger & more full thanks to the strummed chords. ​Click to view my video lesson​ Don't miss the additional content I have for this lesson! This includes a zoomed playthrough video, a play-along jam track, my practice notes, and plenty of links to other lessons teaching the various techniques at use. 🎸 Get all the good stuff on my lesson webpage »​ ​ Looking for More Melody Deep-Dives? I've got several other lessons that follow this same format. Here's a few I recommend. ​Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond ​Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley ​You Are My Sunshine by Johnny Cash ​ Thanks for reading my friends... and I'll see you in next week's issue! David Browse all my lessons at songnotes.net​
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Song Notes by David Pots
Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
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