So let's think of one of those
great singers Judy Garland.
I'll give you an example of the importance
of phrasing.
I'll play a, a song, a melody that you,
you'll know.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
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That's the melody.
It's a nice melody, but I'm just playing
it really straight and flat.
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Now see the difference when I start
playing this as if I was singing it.
We say the first note for instance just do
a little slide up.
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A couple of slides there and
a bit of a bravado.
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See the difference that makes.
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It's like a vibrato little couple
of pull offs.
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Slight slight a trill
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I'll play it again
I'll do something a little different.
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Some bends.
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Embellishing a little more.
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I'm phrasing that differently.
I'm embellishing a little.
I'm improvising a little.
But I'm still not losing the melody.
You still know that, that.
You know what that melody is.
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One way for the listener to really latch
on to that too is that people generally
take notice of lyrics.
They know the lyrics even if they're not
musicians or
they're, wouldn't consider themselves to
be particularly musical.
They'll, they'll hear the lyrics,
very often a song will be become very
popular because the,
the lyrics are very, very meaningful and
they get to a lot of people.
So it's very important when you're,
when you're playing this kind of thing
maybe to think of the lyrics.
Particularly with a song like this cuz a
lot of people know these lyrics.
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
If you played.
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
then it's, it's gonna be kinda, kinda
strange.
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It gets harder to put in some of these,
expressive techniques when we're playing
solo because we're also trying to hold
down chords and other notes.
See it doesn't, we don't have that kind of
freedom a lot of the time but
we can still do it.
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Now we're starting to tell a story.
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So we start to tell a story.
It becomes poetic.
The importance of phrasing.
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