St James Infirmary Travis

If you have played the melody to St James Infirmary and added in the root notes for the chords, you’ll already have an arrangement that sounds good. One of the ways you can develop this further is to add in more bass notes on beats two and four in the bar. This is like combining…

St James Infirmary Chord Melody

In this training we will be working on creating effective arrangements from melodies.

It feels and sounds great to be able to sit down and play a complete instrumental arrangement with nothing but one instrument.

This is not the same as accompanying yourself singing, although that is fun and valuable too. Chord melody is when…