Greensleeves

Greensleeves, this one is a more traditional kind of finger style classic. Anyone that's interested in uh the classical style of finger style or anything where you're using sort of traditional finger, even folk finger style and pop finger style, um this one is essential for you. Um, very, very old, old traditional song. But uh this one's actually the first one that we've got in a minor key. This one's in the key of A minor. Which uses most of the same notes as the C major scale, because C major and A minor are um the relative major and minor keys. So it means they have the same notes and the same chords in them. Uh, we do have a couple of different options with the minor scale, so that's why I say mostly the same notes. Um, to put this into con a wider musical context, this would just be all the white notes on a piano. So it's all the naturals typically that that we're using here. And uh the first note is the second fret on string 3. So we pluck that here with the first finger. And then go into the first finger here. Which is 2 notes. Out of an ear minor chord, string 3 and 2. Walking up the notes. 30. That's 0 on the thinnest string, so we're straight away. We've got 3 strings there already, so we're using 3 different fingers to pluck each one of those strings. We're gonna try and be more vigilant with that from here. OK. First fret open would take us to the end of bar 3. Bar 4 3 0. And then 0 on string 3. So we've gone up from string 321 and then back 123. And that from the top line, from the beginning, would go. Finishing. 0. So I recap through the top line before we move on. 12. Bar 6, 2nd line. 1st fret, 2nd fret on string 3. First fret to 2nd fret. Bar 8, walks down 3 notes from an E major chord. So an E major chord and string. 2 4. Again, we're choosing notes from the chord because that is, is a great way of how how strong melodies are written. um really important if you ever want to get into improvising or songwriting or just playing guitar solos or fingersty, anything like that. That second line one more time. From bar 6. So I would just play that E major, because we're not playing the full one, just play it with two fingers like that, or you can fret. The full major chords. We're then onto the 3rd line, which is exactly the same as the 1st line. It is identical in every way. So uh just as a recap, that would be. 301 3. And then the final line. 10. one. That was 10. One Now we have a 4thre written for the 1st time in this course. And I would therefore like us to use our little finger, our 4th finger, um, to play. The 4th fret of string 4. And then we move back 12, on string 3. And if you can, we therefore use the thumb, using the principles that we learned earlier, to play string 4 and then pluck. 12 With the first finger. At this level, that's not 100% essential, but that's the principles that I'd like you to go for if possible. prioritise learning the notes first, being able to play the notes even just with one digit, with one finger, but try and work into these digits as soon as you've got the base of the melody down. That final line, that 4th 4th line. One last time. 123. And now the important bit, when you've got worked through the whole thing there, get it from halfway. Let's go from bar 10 and make sure we have the second half as as worked through and as as learnt and memorised as we have the first half. If we constantly go from bar one when we're learning a longer piece, this one's 16 bars long. Then you're practising the first couple of bars so much more than the trickier bits later on. And we need to work on those trickier bits as as much on their own. Yes, from halfway, you know, the first, that third line is the same as the first, but we're practising going into into that final line. So let's go from bar 10, which would be the first finger here. From bar 10, 123. And then from the very top, but you may need to do uh line two and line four separately a few more times because that's where something different's happening, and they, those lines are a little bit trickier. But a full slow demo from the top and I'll tell you when we're going onto each line. From 2nd fret of the 3rd string. Here we go. 12. Second line line. And 4th line, Fantastic, optional A minor chord. Because that's the key of this song, A minor, to make it sound finished. That is how to play a simple uh melody of Greensleeves, uh the traditional song. I hope you enjoy playing the rest of the melodies we look at in this course.