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“Whiskey Before Breakfast” (basic): Melody, part 2

“Whiskey Before Breakfast” (basic): Melody, part 2

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“Whiskey Before Breakfast” (basic): Melody, part 2

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- As we play through the repeat. (picks guitar) At the end, now I'm in the second ending, (picks guitar) which sets up the B section now. We've played a lot of scale based, (picks guitar) notes out of this A part. Now we have a little bit of that continuing action here, but a little more of a melodic theme here with this, (picks guitar) like those first two bars right there. (picks guitar) Which you'll also notice is that C pentatonic. (picks guitar) Again, we we build from this fundamental awareness of scale forms. (picks guitar) Again, we're back into more major scale. (picks guitar) This sets up, you know we're in the second half of the B section now, and it sets up a large, descending phrase which is real important for this tune. It's one of the defining features. (picks guitar) Okay? Look at, we talk about note awareness and note value, but ultimately how these good note value sets up good phrase value, and these tunes are really spoken in phrases. As we see the repetition of…

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