With the highest note of the chord as the melody- voilà!-one could play accompaniment and lead simultaneously. While the result sounded complex, the approach was simple. So the guitarist would play chords on the higher strings and with varied rhythms. Single notes on an acoustic guitar, even a large archtop, would sound small and nearly inaudible against a full horn section. Occasionally, a bandleader would give a guitarist a solo. Wrapped around archtops, they strummed steady quarter notes, propelling dancers across the floor and providing percussive harmony for the band. Invest a little bit of time learning the inversions for a dominant-seventh chord, and the classic jazz standard “Whispering” should fall right under your fingers.įrom roughly the 1920s through the 1940s, guitarists made their bread in rhythm sections. You want to learn chord-melody-style playing but aren’t quite sure where to begin. From the January/February 2021 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Greg Ruby
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