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Someone asked if it
might be
possible to highlight the melody notes in the banjo tablatures so I
thought I’d give it a try. The melody notes are in a larger bold font
than the filler notes. You can compare it to the arrangement that just
contains the melody and get an idea how I have put it all together.
It’s good to accent the melody notes if you can. One way to accent the
melody is to play the melody note with the thumb, and you’ll notice
that many (but not all) of the melody notes below are played with the
thumb. Another way of accenting the melody notes is by playing them as
quarter notes, and that is done here also much of the time.
It’s always nice to
mix things
up and it’s not necessary to play every melody note. In the Level 1
arrangement I left the melody basically just as the melody arrangement
is written out, but in Levels 2 and 3 various changes were made such as
moving the melody notes to the left or right a little or even leaving
them out completely and replacing them with common licks instead.
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