For He's A Jolly Good Fellow

For he's a jolly good fellow, this is another one that we have a full chords melody uh arrangement of in the follow-up course from this one. here we're just looking at the melody, and this one is the first song we've done in the key of G. Which is a very guitar friendly key, so a lot of open strings, frankly. Again, we're using the principle of anytime you see a 3rd fret written, or 2nd fret, or 1st fret, you are using that same number digits, so 1st finger, 1st fret, 2nd finger, 2nd fret, etc. And we start off with the 3rd finger at the 3rd fret of string 2. And again we're using the principles with the picking hand of uh assigning uh finger 2 to string two and and so on and so forth for the thinner 3 strings in this fashion. Just plucking into the hand, so we're not really moving the hand at all. We're just plucking the fingers into the palm of the hand. And we have. Third fret to the open string. And then playing that open string 3 times. Written in the tab as 3000. Then we have 2, which is the second fret of string 3. 2nd fret back to zero fret on string 2. And it's those 4 notes that are quicker, indicated by those rhythm symbols on the tab, which are the 8th symbols, the ones that are tied together. And that's where this one becomes more trickier than the ones we've gone for so far because we have those quicker notes. From the top, this would be. We have that 002 0 over two different strings, and that's where that bit will be more trickier than the other the other songs we've gone for so far. But it is just 002 0. So there's nothing there that you won't be able to do. I just really want you to persevere with being vigilant with the fingers that you're using where possible. And um and that would be the first two bars. Bar 3. 10. Now this is the first dotted note, so that one has a line and then a dot. And that dot always means that what, however long that note should last, which from the stick would mean one beat, um, the dot means half as much as that again. No matter how long that note is, it's half as much again. So we're on that first uh not to bar 3 a little bit longer and then open, open. Um, In total, that would be from the very top, 34. And then we have that same rhythm, but different notes this time, working our way down this G major scale which is from bar 4. That again was 2. 0 0 0. So I'm perhaps playing this a little faster than than would be normal if we were face to face. Um, but it is, it is a jolly song, so we do want to get a little bit of speed with this one, but gradually, get it slowly first, just make sure we're getting the notes correct. And from the start, that entire top line, entire first line bars 1 to 5, would be. And the 2 right at the end of bar 5 would start the next section for, he's a jolly good fellow. Uh, all, as I say, all of this uses the G major scale, which would be this. And then we have more notes that we're gonna be working up to. That G major scale is taught totally for free at Andyguitar.co.uk. Uh, you'll have to do a search for it, so it's just the G major pentatonic that we look at in the beginner's course. This is the full G major scale. G major pentatonic or any pentatonic scale just has 5 notes. A major scale has 7 notes in total, 8 including the octave, which is why it's called an octave, cause it's the same note, this is a G, and then the highest note is also a G. There's 8 notes in total, so that's called the octave, the same note at a higher fret. Um, but that G major scale in open positions or using open strings would be super, super useful. And there's further work on the major scale if you search around on the website. Um, just do literally use the search box for major scale and you'll you'll find a fuller major scale course as as part of that which would, um, really help you with some melodies. But that's our top line. The second line from bar 6 would be. That is the same as bar 2. It's the same as bar 2, even going into bar 3. Which is why it's so important to get that first line sorted and the first couple of bars sorted and every one of these melodies that you learn, um, you know, regardless of how it's going, you've got to get those first cause everything else is based upon them. Bar 6 again, 34. And then 30. And then literally walking down the G major scale from the 00310. And so say all of us. Now G major scale again. But if we just came down from the open. In fact, I think I will put the tab for the G major scale um embedded on the the website page that this lesson is on or the app page. Um, because it's it's so crucial to get how we have this set of notes, a scale in order, which is like your A, B, C, um, but then a melody born out of those notes, which is like words or phrases or um or lyrics in this case really. So that's second line on its own. 3. 4. Going up. And down the major scale. OK, so the first couple of bars are the same as the first couple of bars on each line, top line and the second line. It's just the endings that are a little different. Let's try and put this together now, let's go from the top really slowly. But this song, I've chosen this one. Early on, to try and do something that's pretty simple but to get a little bit of speed in there. So do try and get, it's a jolly song. Let's try and get a bit of speed if, if you choose to stay with this one. Don't have to stay, you know, practise every one of these, you know, until it's perfect. But we're trying to get something from each song that we learn, and this one we're just trying to get a bit of speed. From the top, 34. And the key of the song or the last chord is a G. So we could end on a strum of the G major chord. That's another one that we have a full chords and a melody arrangement of in the next course, my full finger style course. But that's how to play for he's a jolly good fellow.